Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distributed manufacturing
Distributed manufacturing is a ''highly'' notable topic, with '"Distributed manufacturing" -wikipedia' generating over 6,300 hits in GScholar and and over 7,600 results in GBooks. There are entire books devoted to the topic, such as http://books.google.com/books?id=9AnmyB1Gs-0C&dq=%22Distributed+manufacturing%22+-wikipedia&source=gbs_navlinks_s Distributed Manufacturing: Paradigm, Concepts, Solutions and Examples, and survey articles, such as ''Leitão, Paulo. "Agent-based distributed manufacturing control: A state-of-the-art survey." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 22, no. 7 (2009): 979-991.''. General notability guidelines, per  are more than satisfied. Problems with synthesis or a non-neutral point of view are generally surmountable problems, per , especially in a short article like this. Even if the article is deemed hopeless and  applies, the notability of the topic means we should stubify, not delete. A highly notable topic, along with either surmountable problems, or at worst, stubification, suggest keeping the article
— User:Mark, 19:50, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:SURMOUNTABLE||WP:TNT (Wikipedia:Notability)