Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graphic arts

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The result of the debate was withdrawn by lister. — FireFox (UTC) 20:58, 27 May '06

[edit] Graphic arts

The definition on Graphic arts is very broad. This seems to conflict with the history section which discuss mostly just woodcuts and movable type. Graphic arts should redirect to Graphic design; the 2 terms are synonymous. Someone on the Talk:Graphic_arts page has already suggested this. There is no info to merge over. There is some overlap with Printmaking, but the Printmaking page already covers what's on Graphic arts. Clubmarx 00:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the AfD tag and replaced it with a mergeto to Graphic design. --Clubmarx 03:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual art-related deletions.

• Speedy Keep I would not be suprised if this article title was an FA! Raichu 00:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

• Merge, redirect, expand, and clean-up per nom, and comment: this is Articles for Deletion, not for merging, renaming, and redirecting. It's a lot easier to simply tag the article with {{mergeto}} and then start a discussion on the matter than it is to create confusion with an AfD and leave the closing admin having no idea what to do with the article-merge it himself? tag it to be merged? AmiDaniel (talk) 00:58, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Graphic design, merging should be done and AFD is not a place to do merging, add merge tags would be better. --Terence Ong 03:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

• Make this a disambiguation page. On the talk page of Graphic arts I have argued that the article should be merged with Printmaking. I have no problem if one of these directs to the other; I don't care which to which. Although there is overlap, I do not agree that the terms "graphic arts" and "graphic design" are synonymous; to me they mean different things. Escher was a graphic artist: he used lithography and woodcuts. He was not a graphic designer. So apparently the same term means different things to different people. An acceptable alternative may be to make this a disambiguation page: Graphic arts may mean: *Printmaking, the art of ... *Graphic design, ... --Lambiam^Talk 03:39, 27 May 2006 (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.