Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Double roller Swiss anchor escapement

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete by Dpbsmith

Double roller Swiss anchor escapement[edit]

The Double roller Swiss anchor escapement appears to have something to do with watches. This article, however, appears to be a hoax. DCEdwards1966 05:23, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)

The double roller Swiss anchor escapement is by far the most common escapement in use today, and thus could use a decent article. This one is someone's idea of a joke. Thus, cleanup rather than delete. Starblind 09:55, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Anchor escapement and Escapement#Anchor_escapement are the real articles on this subject. iMeowbot~Mw 11:06, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I just speedy deleted it as patent nonsense. Content was as shown below. The comment about it being invented 200 years after Hooke popularized it and people being "prescient enough to realize what the invention would have been called" clearly shows it is either a) nonsense, or b) a prank, therefore vandalism. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:59, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The Double roller Swiss anchor escapement is an invention popularized by Robert Hooke, although it was in fact invented by Alfred Nobel some 200 years after Hooke's death. For some reason, the majority of people were prescient enough to realize what the invention would have been called, and thus popularized it as described above.

The Machine:

THe Double roller Swiss anchor escapement is a type of spring machine that is very potent and has very high tensile action. It was often used for French guillotine murders in the 19th century. However, since the death of Robespierre, the double roller Swiss anchor escapment (oft-acronymed the DRE - in reference to great enginner Dr. Dre (Ph.D. MIT)), it has not be used, because all of them have since rusted.

P. S. And to further point out the obvious: French guillotines did not use precision Swiss watch moments, and DRE in capitals is a common initialism for "Digital Rectal Exam," and Dr. Dre is the name of a rap musician. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:34, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

~~Weak Keep, could do with expansion.~~ Megan1967 01:19, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Vote withdrawn as above. Megan1967 01:20, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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