Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thermal management of electronic devices and systems

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 Keep pschemp | talk 02:52, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is the main article linked to from Electronics#Heat dissipation and thermal management. I don't believe it covers enough material to merit its own article, and everything in it is described in more detail on numerous other pages. I believe that it deserves a proper paragraph in the Electronics article with inline links to those articles, such as Aircooling, CPU cooling, and Computer cooling. ~MDD4696 23:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I disagree with deleting this article. Where else will you put stuff on heatsinking and fan cooling of electronic equpt etc. If you can come up with an alternative page title, I'm willing to listen . Otherwise, please leave this page alone.--Light current 01:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC) (copied from this article's talk page)[reply]
• Perhaps the previous poster is unfamiliar with the concept of merge back to Electronics? Alba 03:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • On the one hand, merging it back makes a lot of sense. However, Light current made the point on my talk page that the Electronics article is already gigantic. I think there's room for just a paragraph on this subject there, but he also stated that this article could be significantly expanded. I'm somewhat less sure about deleting this article now, however I'd like the AfD to remain active so as to gather others' opinions. ~MDD4696 03:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • In that case, I'd advise re-splitting with more sections after merging back. I would agree that Electronics is too big, but you can't pull material out one paragraph at a time. Alba 13:35, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This is a substantial topic. While the current article is written rather poorly as of now I believe that this is the sort of topic that is easily improved. There are many articles in the literature devoted to this topic. I think this article will be improved over time if allowed to stay.

• Keep and expand. Heat management is an important issue in its own right and Electronics is too large already. The article isn't terrible, although it could stand to be further expanded and sourced. Gwernol 15:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Gwernol JeffBurdges 16:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but could have better title. --MacRusgail 22:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and expand. Georgewilliamherbert 21:15, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and expand. Much more can be said relating to power consumption of an electronic device (watts), heat generated, and means of dissipating this heat. The current article seems to focus mainly on computers and CPU cooling (although it does not specifically say this). There is much to be said on this topic as it related specifically to electrical engineering and physical design of a device. Zman97211 05:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Moe ε 02:27, 1 April 2006 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.