Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exherbo

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. Not notable for itself, and as they are ex-Gentoo developers merging to Gentoo would be odd. As said, and as always, with no prejudice for recreation, should sources for notability show up. - Nabla (talk) 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Exherbo

Exherbo (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Announced unreleased software with no schedule. Wikipedia:NOTCRYSTAL No sources cohesion 18:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

It's not unreleased per se -- code is available already, and works. It just doesn't have a nice friendly installer. spb 21 May 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.100.201 (talk) 20:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete: agreed with nominator. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 02:19, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Merge... somewhere... until there's an actual release somewhere. Some attention has been sent Exherbo's way (Slashdot story). But on the other hand, it's not a giant loss if the article gets deleted and rewritten when the release is ripe and the media at large really notices this thing. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Source code is out there as spb said, people can fetch it and use it. If you want to remove the article because it's irrelevant for Wikipedia, that's perfectly understandable, but the existence of installation media has nothing to do with the fact that the distro is there and is public. The information about the existence of Exherbo is perfectly verifiable by downloading and checking the sources. --ColdWind (talk) 16:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 21:08, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Weak merge to Gentoo Linux per press coverage noted by wwwwolf. --Karnesky (talk) 02:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, an announcement on LWN and Slashdot is nowhere near enough to claim notability. We're too lenient on random Linux distro forks like this. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete:' Per WP:N and WP:CRYSTAL. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 19:42, 27 May 2008 (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.