Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linux adoption

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

• The result of the nomination is no consensus, defaulting to keep. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:16, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Linux adoption

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary Darrien 08:59, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. This is not a dicdef, but the information content is pretty much nonexistant. There may be room for a good article on Linux adoption, but this is not it. ManoaChild 09:23, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Now has sufficient content. Should have been marked as a stub. ManoaChild 10:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it was a stub, not a dictionary definition. Now it's becoming an article. Pengo 10:31, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
  
  • Please note this VfD is for the article being a dictionary definition. Please see the article as it was when it was added to VfD: [1]
  • Please also note the Linux article is already 32 kilobytes long. This may be longer than is preferable. Pengo 02:22, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. and expand --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 15:03, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, content of such article is very fluid and unmaintanable (computer systems are being changed all the time). Some general info about trends could make useful article but mere list of events not. IMHO. Pavel Vozenilek 16:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete do we have Windows adoption?  Grue  20:04, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

No, but nor is it a topic. Simple Google comparison: 366 hits (0 in news) for "Windows adoption" vs 47,500 (52 in news) for "Linux adoption". But feel free to start a Windows adoption or Windows migration article. Pengo 00:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep as a stub, to be expanded. Eclipsed 22:20, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge back to the Linux article, there is nothing especially encyclopedic about people using a product, without the context of the main article this one is poor.--nixie 22:24, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Linux. The current state of the article is actually quite good, and I would usually vote Keep on this sort of thing, but as nixie said, it lacks context without the main article. --Joshk 04:29, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - hopelessly unmaintainable, and not terribly encyclopedic. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:50, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• I'm between merge and keep. Pengo's comment and what I see on the techie sites both support the idea that this is of at least passing notability. Barno 02:09, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not encyclopedic. Any relevant information of course ought to be merged with Linux or another, more appropriate article. Note that at least two-thirds of this "article" is already in Linux. - Centrx 22:59, 9 August 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.