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Hello, Kcschlack. You have new messages at JohnCD's talk page.
Message added 21:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Lean Engineering

My first reservation about this was that it seemed to be your proprietary term, in which case it would not be a suitable subject because of the WP:No original research policy, which includes "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to premiere such a discovery." It's true that Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL suggests that the term is in wider use, but is it clearly enough defined - is there general enough agreement on its scope?

Next question: is this different enough from Lean manufacturing, where there is already an article? WP:Content forking is discouraged unless there is a real distinction. I see that your text does touch on this distinction, but I am not clear on it.

You wrote "My intention is to remove the content on www.leanengineering.com and move it to Wikipedia." I'm not sure just what you mean, but if you are thinking of Wikipedia being a web-host or forum, that is not an encyclopedia's role. The text on your website reads as though it is partly promoting the idea, and partly providing a step-by-step how-to guide in a chatty, first-person style. Neither of those is the role of an encyclopedia article: (a) Wikipedia requires a neutral point of view, and (b) among the long list of things that WP:Wikipedia is not is Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook or textbook.

If you are commercially interested in Lean Manufacturing, you would have from WP's point of view a WP:Conflict of interest - that is not an insurmountable obstacle, but it would need to be declared and you would need to be careful. Wikipedia is extremely resistant to being used for any kind of promotion.

In summary, I think there is scope for an article on this subject, but it would not look like the text of your web-site.

I suggest that you post a note - or if you like, I will - on the talk page of WP:WikiProject Engineering, a group of editors interested in engineering, to see if others are interested. ("Editor" means just the same as "user" - there is no separate class of "editors".)

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:05, 28 March 2012 (UTC)