Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DXLab

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 Keep (No consensus). --Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 21:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] DXLab

Blatant advertising. WP:NOT a propaganda machine. --Aurochs (Talk | Block)

Note to closer. Several pages redirect to this article. If it is deleted they should be too. -R. fiend 20:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Don't see anything encyclopedic here. WP is already full of insignificant software BS. We don't need any more. -R. fiend 19:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• This piece of "insignificant software" is used continously by thousands around the world to facilitate communications. It is completely free; with no revenue, the term "advertising" has no meaning. I note a WP entry for Linux. --—the preceding unsigned comment is by AA6YQ (talk • contribs)
• Linux is not blatant advertising, and besides that is actually notable. If you can prove notability and expand this beyond an advert, then we might have something. --Aurochs (Talk | Block)
• Delete I concur with R. Fiend, although I prefer to look at it not so much as "we don't need any more" but as "we need to reverse the trend". The Literate Engineer 19:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• One can apply the WP:CORP criteria for products and services to softwares. (For example: Hdimage (AfD discussion) fails to satisfy those criteria, whereas grep succeeds.) Searching turns up announcements from the author (and simple reprints) and mentions in discussion fora by pseudonymous people, but also turns up people independent of its creator considering this software notable enough to have written their own, often quite lengthy, reviews of it (by other amateur radio enthusiasts by more amateur radio enthusiasts by Thierry Lombry by John Butcher by Serge Stroobandt by W8BYH) and even to have written softwares of their own to work with it (MMD). Although this is far from what an encyclopaedia article about these softwares should look like, and although an actual book would be a much stronger indicator, it appears from the sheer number of people that have done more than simply include this, and its accompanying blurb from the author, in directories of free software for download and that have actually put up their own reviews, on their web sites for other enthusiasts to read, that the WP:CORP criteria are satisfied. Keep. Uncle G 23:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Uncle G's evidence and arguments. This article is not promotional, and AFD is not cleanup Kappa 01:44, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per R. fiend. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 08:37, Dec. 26, 2005

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.