Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Design Exchange


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:58, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Design Exchange

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This is an interesting article but it appears to be non-notable. Search engine results produced nothing significantly useful including this unreliable blog, this guide-like magazine page and this (although possibly notable, it is a small mention). The other links I found also appeared to be guide-like, unreliable, primary sources or small mentions. I am willing to reconsider if notability is discovered. SwisterTwister  talk  02:21, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. Agreed that the DX doesn't make headlines, but I tend to support keeping it because it's a museum located in downtown Toronto and it's located in a historic building.  Once in a while it hosts exhibits that do make the news, like the Princess Diana Collection in 2011.  The article clearly suffers from poor referencing, but that's a reason to work on it, not delete it.   PK  T (alk)  12:32, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep The article needs to be vastly improved and referenced, but this is a heritage building and museum. The building itself is important and the fact that your search turns up few references perhaps relates to its refunctioning from the Toronto Stock Exchange to a design museum. Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:05, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. 15:41, 13 August 2012 (UTC)  • Gene93k (talk) 15:41, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. 15:41, 13 August 2012 (UTC)  • Gene93k (talk) 15:41, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. 15:42, 13 August 2012 (UTC)  • Gene93k (talk) 15:42, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, the Design Exchange has been around since well before newspaper articles could typically be expected to be permanently retained on the web, so referencing improvements will depend in part on someone taking the time to dig into older newspaper back issues. Our only rule here is that references have to exist; we don't have a preference for web content over print-only content. However, as noted, this is a museum located in a heritage building, which holds the archives of more than one genuinely notable industrial designer, so while it may not necessarily garner a ton of coverage I'm rather confident that it has probably garnered enough. Weak keep, contingent on someone actually doing some digging in Lexis-Nexis or wherever; that said, I am willing to revisit this (and to switch my vote to a delete) if such sourcing improvements don't actually pan out and/or nobody ever actually tries. Bearcat (talk) 21:38, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.