Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electronics and the environment


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:42, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Electronics and the environment

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Content Fork and complete overlap with electronic waste. Indeed, the three or four sentences this article does contain are about, well, electronic waste... Yaksar (let's chat) 19:41, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - impossibly vague title except for electronic waste aspect, which is already an article. This cannot be developed into a good article since it does not have a specific subject. One might as well write about "gender equality and the environment" or "computers and food" - the overlap is a fuzy set, not crisply defined enough for an article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * My earlier examples of Energy and the environment and Transport and the environment exist and are also weak articles, but that's not germane to this discussion. --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:29, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete overly-vague title, synthesis, no criteria for what belongs in the article. Content fork and overlap. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 18:24, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Content fork and overlap, with overly-vague title. Johnfos (talk) 19:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Since Water and the environment isn't notable enough, I have a hard time seeing how this could be. In any case, we already have electronic waste covering the same topic. Qrsdogg (talk) 05:10, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. There is clearly potential in writing a reasonable article on the topic. Environmental issues of electronics not only includes waste and recycling, but also environment-friendly production and operation. For example, there have been a number of recent European regulations towards energy consumption, improved component interoperability, etc. However, it seems that the initial author does not have a clear goal for this article (considering the myriad of related Environment articles) so it is somewhat hard to argue. – Edit: Just figuring there is Energy and the environment. I assume environment-friendly production is also covered somewhere so there is no need to duplicate content. Nageh (talk) 18:16, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Consider merging the one cited fact into Energy and the environment, otherwise delete. I agree that writing about this topic would be difficult to do without falling into WP:SYNTH, and as Nageh said, it would also likely lead to the duplication of content. Kansan (talk) 18:18, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. It's an easily expandable subtopic of energy and the environment. There's enough potential content here for at least one article.  I do not see that it would necessarily be synthesis, and I think there is no topic at all that can not be written about in an encyclopedic manner without violating SYN, if there is material to write about it  at all. difficult does not mean impossible.  It's not a matter of covering everything "somewhere" . Everything should be covered at the appropriate length according to sources--we are NOT PAPER, and the goal is not to find the minimum number of articles possible.    DGG ( talk ) 03:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - Wikipedia isn't paper,but nearly all our readers (Hi, Watson!) are human beings with finite lifespan which we ought not to waste on a flock of loosely organized articles of minimal relevance to any particular subject. Not being paper is no excuse for sloppy writing and sloppy organization. --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:01, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * And more importantly, this article is only about electronic waste. If there was actual information about electronics and the environment related to something else (and different from energy and the environment it would be a different story, but that is not the case.--Yaksar (let's chat) 04:04, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Per Wtshymanski's argument about it not having a specific subject. Guy Macon (talk) 20:56, 5 March 2011 (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.