Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paper-to-CAD conversion

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was REDIRECT to computer-aided design. Nothing was merged; feel free to peruse the edit histories for something of worth if that's your fancy. Postdlf 05:38, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Paper-to-CAD conversion and Paper-to-CAD Conversion
Advert. Sqpds 00:13, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I took out the references to a particular company. Kappa 01:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough it might be worth an article. Sqpds 01:04, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm sustaining this nomination, and I've added the second article under a variant title. Though it's not an advert, I don't think it's going to be more than a dicdef. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 01:52, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both of them, non-necessary dicdefs. I think this can be adequately covered in the main CAD article. --Idont Havaname 03:44, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete . Redirect Computer-aided design. The issue already covered in nearly the same words in Computer-aided design article by the same anon contributor. Mikkalai 05:27, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep one of these (I'd go for the one with the lower-case conversion) and redirect. Potential for expansion here. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 06:45, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is but one of applications of image analysis & pattern recognition in CAD. It is a usual practice in wikipedia to cover smaller subtopics within larger articles. If the topic grows, it can be easily expanded into a separate article. Right now it is nothing but a duplication of a small paragraph in Computer-aided design article. It may as well be a redirect there. Mikkalai 17:45, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * So how about merge and redirect to pattern recognition? Or to CAD?  RickK 20:50, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * There is nothing to merge into CAD: everything is already there. Pattern recognition is only initial part of the job. It still requires a significant manual post-processing. Mikkalai 21:20, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The problem with the term is that the overwhelming majority of its usage is the name of a particular software service. I can find no academic disuccion of the notion. But probably you are right. Changing the vote. Mikkalai
 * Merge, though if Mikkalai is correct, then redirect alone should be sufficient. --MikeJ9919 04:13, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
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