Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northrop Switchblade

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 05:39, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Northrop Switchblade

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Article has no sources independent of the patent applications which verify notability BilCat (talk) 04:23, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:40, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

delete (not an aircraft, just a patent) and move material to a relevant article, like Variable-sweep wing--Marc Lacoste (talk) 08:18, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
~~merge and disambiguate~~ redirect to Northrop Grumman Switchblade: The article lacks citations for any actual research. If these were present then Northrop's patronage would make it notable, per WP:NAIR. No doubt such research was conducted, but I can find no WP:RS documenting it. That may be because the patent makes no mention of "switchblade", so this article would then be wrongly-named. I suspect that the Internet meme merchants have confused it with the Northrop Grumman Switchblade oblique wing project. ~~I agree with Marc Lacoste that the content should be merged into Variable-sweep wing and I would add to that the Forward-swept wing. But I think this page should be kept as a disambig page.~~ Some readers will be coming here looking for the patented Internet meme, let the redirect inform them. If RS is ever uncovered, then a new page with better content can be created under a more appropriate title. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:31, 18 February 2020 (UTC) -- Updated 22:16, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no references cited means it fails WP:GNG. The patent linked to makes no mention of "Switchblade" nor is there any indication that the company intends to build this. - Ahunt (talk) 14:01, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete articles are to have references, which this article doesn't have.Catfurball (talk) 21:05, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I see that this is a pretty old article; there has been plenty of time for reliable sources to exist if it was in any way notable.TheLongTone (talk) 15:52, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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