Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Capsule speaker
Are Capsule speakers notable?  I'm unsure, as I commented last night. It comes down to whether the article scope is that of a generic term, or a named product. Clearly you see it as the brandname for X-mini and rightly redirected it there. But are X-mini themselves notable, or do they simply fail ?  I've never heard of them. Did they innovate the (generic) capsule speaker?  Are they notably large manufacturers of it?  Do they quietly make all the branded capsule speakers for a household-name brand?  I don't know, but if they don't do one of those, I'd be inclined to AfD that article (We're an encyclopedia, |not a business directory. A generic concept trumps a brand, in encyclopedic terms.) Are capsule speakers (in the generic sense) notable?  I'd say yes, although the best article name could be debated too. A few years ago, no-one had such a thing. Now they're everywhere. Small children demand one for Christmas.  Driven by the advent of the iPod, the MP3 player and the smartphone (all internally huge in data terms, but still physically small) it's now a commonplace need to have encapsulated speaker-amplifiers. There are a myriad brands of these. They depend on the technical innovation of Class-T amplifiers to work, they offer Bluetooth connectivity (after twenty years, finally a use for Bluetooth!), some have magnetic pickups to work from any tiny-speaker devices. They're even incorporating Li-po battery technology and USB-as-a-generic-power-socket to become energy stores and charging docks for smaller devices. But are they called 'capsule speakers' and do we already have their article elsewhere
— User:Andy, 10:21, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:MILL||WP:NOTDIR (Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill)