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planned obsolescence

practice of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life
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Summary

planned obsolescence is a destruction[1]. It draws 7,660 Wikipedia views per month (destruction category, ranking #2 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: manufacturing process management[3], obsolescence[4], business process[5]
  • Commons category: Planned obsolescence[6]
  • Described at URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/15/the-right-to-repair-planned-obsolescence-electronic-waste-mountain[7]
  • Subject has role: profit maximization[8]
  • P14541: 3HnGOj[9]

Why It Matters

planned obsolescence has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Alex rosenberg35 · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: destruction"
  2. 7d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → product-obsolescence
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'ary', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: product-obsolescence, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949459|product obsolescence (#289949459)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/79"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3HnGOj
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subject has role → profit maximization
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → manufacturing process management, obsolescence, business process
    Instance of → destruction
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007538594805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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