Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.dat

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 merge to List of common file extensions. --Angr (t·c) 20:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] .dat

Article on a file extension. File formats may be notable but file extensions aren't, specially when having in mind that they vary from system to system Mecanismo | Talk 14:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Filename extension 9cds 14:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep part of a set of file extension type articles, like .doc and .rtf. This kind of stuff might seem pretty obvious, but I could see it being quite helpful to novice computer users. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; it is of some interest to know how this extension is used. However, the article name should be changed (note that .doc and .rtf are both redirects). - Liberatore(T) 19:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Seems notable enough. -- JJay 22:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or Merge into new article List of file extensions. Werdna648^T/_C\^@ 01:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not because it is a filename extension, but because it is too generic as a filename extension. Just off the top of my head the .dat extension is used e.g. for data files by any number of programs (who probably all store the date in a different way anyway), as well as for VCD content (AVSEQ01.dat etc.). Merging it is not really a solution. All that can be said about this extension is that it is used by a multitude of applications, which isn't really information at all. Zunaid 08:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect per Werdna648 by reasoning of Zunaid. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into List of file extensions Zzzzz 09:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

change to List of file formats Zzzzz 10:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment On a side note, List of file extensions redirects to List of common file extensions, whereas List of filename extensions redirects to List of file formats which seems to be the same or similar information just presented differently and containing far more entries. Those people voting merge might want to check out these two lists and change their target. In any case it seems these lists are good candidates for a merge themselves. Zunaid 09:51, 22 December 2005 (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.