Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Designtheory


 * 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   no consensus. Stifle (talk) 11:10, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Designtheory

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WP:NEO The word "Designtheory" does not exist. No reliable sources were provided in the article.Tr00rle (talk) 16:37, 27 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Has this AfD been properly templated? But in any case: the page in question is an article about Design theory, stuck under a neologism presumably because the appropriate page is a disambiguation page. Perhaps move "Design theory" to "Design theory (disambiguation)" and "Designtheory" to "Design theory"? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 02:08, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have fixed the template, should be good now- McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 23:56, 18 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2015 January 19.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 00:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 01:22, 26 January 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Or would Theory of design be better? (Since "Design theory" can mean so many other things, besides theories about designing stuff). --Andreas Philopater (talk) 02:53, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, N ORTH A MERICA 1000 03:07, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep – Topic passes WP:N (e.g. ). Rename the disambiguation page at Design theory to Design theory (disambiguation), and then move the article to Design theory. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 03:11, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. The search provided by Northamerica1000 gives hits only for the other meanings at the Design theory disambig page, not for the meaning discussed in this article (which is certainly not the primary topic for the phrase). Also, we already have Architectural theory, and anything in this article stepping outside that seems to be WP:OR. -- 120.23.108.166 (talk) 00:52, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: not only for other meanings, but you do have to dig through to find the ones relating to theory of (industrial/artistic/architectural) design. Architecture is only one part of this (as books like Marie Ann Frank's Denman Ross and American Design Theory (2011), Mark Foster Gage's Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design (2011), Helen Armstrong's Graphic Design Theory (2012), etc., explain). The catalogue of MIT Press lists design theory as a discipline, distinct from architecture. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 15:23, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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