Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bad command or file name

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The result of the debate was keep. No consensus to delete or merge. Postdlf 23:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bad command or file name

A non-expandable article. JoaoRicardo 02:54, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, maybe if Microsoft used it in marketing it would be notable, but they didn't. Gazpacho 06:38, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete From what I can see, no potential to become more than a stub, ever. ÅrУnT^†_∈ 09:12, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to MS-DOS. ÅrУnT^†_∈ 02:54, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into MS-DOS or Comparison of operating systems and redirect. One error message isn't encyclopedic, but a comparison of different OSes errors for the same problem may be. Thryduulf 20:08, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. GRider\^talk 22:56, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge anything useable into MS-DOS, and add redirect. Megan1967 01:19, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, vote changed as per above - There is probably enough material on the internet, judging by Google, to allow it to expand into a proper article. Megan1967 00:33, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The message that has showed up on computer monitors several trillion times. 69.243.41.28 04:19, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Definately notable, can be made encyclopaedic Beta_M ^talk, |^contrib (Ë-Mail)
• Keep: For a decade or so, this phrase was famous. I think it's worth keeping the article just because 20 years from now someone might run across the phrase and want to look up what the heck it's about. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:55, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge & redirect, while the phrase itself is notable, I don't see it ever becoming more than a short stub. Put into another article, it can be more encyclopedic, and it won't seem so out-of-place. -Frazzydee|✍ 04:59, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into MS-DOS. — Monedula 11:49, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, but see my comment in Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Slogan:The foreskin is not a birth defect. - Keith D. Tyler [flame] 23:00, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, for the same reasons as Jmabel gave. We have pages for programming errors also, such as Segmentation fault. Quite frankly, I'm surprised there are only 21k Google hits on this. I saw it all the time in the MS-DOS days. --Idont Havaname 23:03, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Under that principle, it should redirect to an article with a name like User error. "Segmentation fault" is a term for a type of program failure, "bad command or file name" is an OS-specific user error message. - Keith D. Tyler [flame] 23:24, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge & redirect into MS-DOS. Boffy b 16:43, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)

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