Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Industrial design

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The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design

Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design

Description[edit]

WikiProject Industrial design is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to Industrial design (also called Product design). Right now, this topic is not well covered, being squeezed in between its Visual Arts and its Technology roots.

If I'm cor-rec-to, there are about 1850 articles on Industrial design in Wikipedia...
At least, it's more than for Typography, and there IS a Typography WikiProject...
And it's more than the Fashion WikiProject with 482 articles...
There is a Graphic design project...
There is also an Urban studies and planning project and a Video games portal so...
Now you can also see a proposal for the Design Portal. (that portal would be for Industrial design AND Graphic design/Interior design)
- Note: Rationale for having a portal about Design (at large):
  - There once was a sketch for an Industrial Design portal: over a 3-year period, it was not brought up to speed;
  - On the other hand, there is a fully-operational Visual arts portal: but it does not cater especially to the Design topic;
  - There is no Graphic design portal (although there is a Typography portal);
  - There is no Interior design portal (although there is an Architecture portal);
  - There are thousands of Wikipedia articles related to the topic of Design;
  - The conclusion of all of these facts is that having a separate Design portal is needed.

Alainr345 (talk) 07:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Join Alainr345 (talk) 07:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Join KuwarOnline (talk) 19:11, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Join Ed Mercer (talk) 21:26, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Join Schluum (talk) 14:10, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Endorse. Seems well thought out and supported, with sufficient relevant articles. I wish you all the best of luck with organizing this project. :) -- œ ^™ 08:57, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.