Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple symbol

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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 debate was delete. Woohookitty 00:48, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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The article is about a character that is only used in Macintosh computers. Even the title is not properly visible on non-Macintosh computers. Useless article. Delete. — JIP | Talk 07:28, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

  • Redirect to Apple Symbols (typeface). This can be counted as a Delete, if needed. Delete. --Blu Aardvark 07:31, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
    • This page isn't relevant to that article. The Apple Symbols (typeface) article is about a specific font which provides a wide variety of previously unusable symbols to Mac users. The "Apple" symbol is a character which is available in a large number of Macintosh fonts, but is not present in "Apple Symbols". --Murgatroyd 07:43, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
      • Ah. OK. Change to delete, then. --Blu Aardvark 07:48, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Article title is in the Unicode private use area, and so its appearance depends entirely on what font you're using (I see it as a Euro symbol with an extra line). It's completely worthless as a redirect, since nobody who isn't using a Mac will be able to type it. --Carnildo 07:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Macincruft. - Thatdog 08:32, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete The private use Unicode sequence for "Apple logo" is "F000". I'm not sure what this one is, but it's certainly non-notable. -Harmil 11:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete or Redirect. Neither IE nor Firefox on most PCs can understand the symbol (I just see a question mark). However, if there's a relevent article, I think it should re-direct, as I can imagine other Mac users typing the symbol into the search box to see if there's a relevent article (and to test Wikipedia's capabilities). — Asbestos | Talk 14:09, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to some generic Mac article somewhere jamesgibbon 15:03, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • This does not look like it can be expanded so its probably a dicdef. Either transwiki or redirect. Vegaswikian 04:51, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect so noone will have trouble seeing an interrogative mark on a PC, and Mac Users curious to see something about  will have a redirect. ATMB 12:23, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Apple typography#The Apple logo which describes the codepoint's use on the Mac platform. This could be reevaluated if other significant uses of the same codepoint are identified. Carnillo: No, it is not completely useless since people who are using a Mac will be able to type it. This is in line with the policy on redirects (i.e. "if someone may find it useful") David Remahl 07:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete/Redirect. No non-Mac computer can render this, unless you install the Mac version of whatever your default OpenType font (such as Times New Roman or, in this case, Arial), and even that manual quick-fix locks out Linux, Unix, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention the URL. Say I link a friend to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EF%A3%BF. ooooh yeah, they're really gonna want to click on a link that looks like geek crap. This page would be fine if it showed a giant picture of the symbol for those who can't see it--like Ankh does--but as it is, no, just... no. Too narrow. Well, I'll vote to keep if I get to start an accompanying article about ÿ :) --yes, that's the Windows symbol, which even my beloved Firefox can't display. Only a certain percentage can see it, heck, not even all IE users at that, so it too would make a weak and "discriminatory" page, just like this. --and what would this page ever be beyond a stub? I mean, it's not like @ where you can talk about its long and varied history and myriad uses... GarrettTalk 08:42, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete useless trivia not warranting an article even if the damn symbol did show up. carmeld1 03:23, 14 July 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.