Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intelligent clothing

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. W.marsh 18:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Intelligent clothing

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The problem with this article is that there is no accepted definition of intelligent clothing. It's mostly used as a marketing gizmo that can mean anything from wearable computing to high-tech textiles. For instance the top Google hits [1] includes a company defining itself as "Intelligent Clothing is an emerging pediatric and maternal-fetal health telemonitoring company.", descriptions of unrelated high-performance textiles [2] [3], some references to wearable computing, a management tool for Marks & Spencer [4]. I don't think we can seriously hope to build an encyclopedic article that won't be a perpetual spam-target with little or no meaningful content. Pascal.Tesson 23:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep for now, this article needs a lot of work, but I think Wikipedia needs an article about wearable computing and high-tech textiles. --Candy-Panda 23:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment We do have an article on Wearable computing and a few related to Textile engineering. My point is that there is no scholarly definition of "intelligent clothing" and the best we'll be able to do with that article is echo marketing memes. Pascal.Tesson 00:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Inadequate references, and term looks like a neologism. Possibly more appropriate for Wiktionary ? WMMartin 14:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure Wiktionary would be too thrilled though. There's not really anything like a standard definition of the term. Pascal.Tesson 14:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• keep--interesting concept and there's some related sci-fi. & relevant material in some of the computer magazines. Possible material for an article.DGG 04:20, 28 January 2007 (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.