Talk:Zadoc Dederick

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City Directory

Can anyone find the 1868/69, Newark, New Jersey City Directory? Thank You. --HighFlyingFish (talk) 00:38, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Move?

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The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 17:11, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Zadoc Dederick → Dederick's Steam Man – Since this person is only notable for his invention, I wonder if this article should be moved to Dederick's Steam Man, or something like that, per the notability policy, which states that " If, however, there is only enough information about one notable event related to the person, then the article should be titled specifically about that event" WP:Bio. Relisted. BDD (talk) 22:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC) HighFlyingFish (talk) 02:56, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Dederick and Glass' steam man might be better. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:50, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Did you mean Dederick and Grass' steam man, per http://books.google.com/books?id=urEaBTl3v1QC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Zadoc+P.+Dederick&source=bl&ots=L9sjixVf9Y&sig=izXuismCK6O7uwobCNDrBFDDuZk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MN9QUd6fOcjLyQGK04H4Cw&ved=0CHAQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=Zadoc%20P.%20Dederick&f=false?
Oppose. A separate article Steam man can be created though. Apteva (talk) 16:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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"Robot"

Should the man really be referred to as a "robot" in the article? The word robot didn't exist at the time, and also the steam man wouldn't have had any capacity for programming or sensing its environment, which would better fit the definition of a robot. Would "automaton" or even "android" be better? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7E:2FEB:3E00:D380:B03F:A8AE:5D94 (talk) 12:50, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]