Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FreeMeter

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 was delete. - Mailer Diablo 13:56, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FreeMeter

Unremarkable software product. Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:56, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - fails the products and services section of WP:CORP - Peripitus (Talk) 07:51, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment WP:CORP is surely irrelevant for open source freeware?. Ace of Risk 14:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Reply' - perhaps but I can't see another stick to measure against. WP:SOFT is still a proposed policy although I can't see how this passes that either. - Peripitus (Talk) 21:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per Peripitus Dlyons493 Talk 08:41, 13 August 2006

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• No Delete - Firstly this is not a commercial software its open source. This entry was not posted by the developer. The software is indeed a very remarkable software as we don't have one like this on the Windows platform. The entry is also not incomplete and details about the software and no one else. The article is not politically motivated and not an advertisement either. If even after all this we decide that this software article is not fit enough I will not try to repost. Please also review LightTray so that we can clear it off too as it is on similar lines. Yed 05:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Though WP:CORP doesn't apply, the proposed guidelines in WP:SOFTWARE are compelling & this program doesn't really meet them. I'd also like to discourage Yed from using WP as a platform for this blog. --Karnesky 05:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Reply - Thanks Karnesky for pointing out WP:SOFTWARE it is more eligible than WS:CORP here. As for using WP as a platform for the blog if it does not add to the detail then its worthy of being removed from WP. I would just like to reiterate that the aim is not to make WP a platform for advertising and neither am I trying to make it one. Please, if the entries are in no way useful then it must be removed from WP. But the issue here is about a software not developed by me; nor am I trying to advertise to anyone. The author of the software is more than happy "not to have an entry in WP" [in his own words]. If somone would like to put WP:SOFTWARE to be used so strictly then we can actually find many many more of them which should have been filtered out too. Though this is not a an excuse but it definitely needs to be looked a little more thoroughly here. For a start why don't we try and see how many such similar open source tools are available or mentioned anywhere else in WP. Yed 8:59 14 August (UTC)
  • Reply As the author of FreeMeter, i have made no such statement quoted above, as anyone can see by the handy link to the post. So as i am being misquoted, i shall make my statement here for all to observe. I see no reason for FreeMeter to have a WP page, other than to reiterate its features and functions already available on sf.net, my projects official homepage, or google. I will not maintain this page myself with updates to FreeMeter, or be accountable for its accuracy, as i have enough to do already. There is a thread on FreeMeter's sf.net forums [here] for anyone who wishes to discuss this WP entry. --209.98.224.230 21:02, 14 August 2006 (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.