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Compared to the typical AfD article there are easily enough sources to show that the subject is notable, so the article should be kept. But the name is wrong. The term "Dutch brick" almost always means "Netherlands brick". And I have the feeling this article should be split into two, one about using
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Expansion looks good, but there still remains some dubious claims which need to be sourced and I'm not convinced that the article title is suitable either. "Dutch brick is a colloquial term for blocks formed by concrete stabilized soil used to form blocks" Says who? I see little evidence of it as an
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Often type 2 bricks are also type 3, but type 2 can be made with standard concrete using cement, sand and gravel, and type 3 can be rectangular, suitable for low-cost housing. The article as it stands blends types 2 and 3. Perhaps that is not a problem - but there must be a better name. WP is not a
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Netherlands could easily be the subject of an article - there are many sources that discuss them. They are kiln-fired clay bricks, often yellow, prized for their quality, exported to other countries, used for paving and so on. This
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African development? That would be really notable I think and a more appropriate context. I'd then remove the current unsourced material about it being a term and change it so it is centred around the
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Masters Brick, which seems to actually be Dutch and a producer of brick or something which has been used in
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cement and local materials (sand, gravel, maybe soil) to make bricks on site at low cost, and the other about using trapezoidal bricks to make wells, latrines etc. If someone can suggest reasonable target titles, I can do the move and split, and start one on the
Netherlands bricks.
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