Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faust (Programming language)

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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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 15:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Faust (Programming language)

author objected to {{prod}}, see Talk:Faust (Programming language). No vote. GTBacchus(talk) 17:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment It has only been downloaded 50 times. This is far short of the 5000 needed for the WP notability criteria. The links on the talk page make me hesitate on voting to delete though, so I abstain. Where (talk) 18:59, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
    • This applies to Release 0.9.7.1. What about the earlier releases? I think you should add the numbers up. LambiamTalk 03:05, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Defer I've looked at the web site and the language is real and interesting, but a micro-stub like this article isn't useful. The article author in the talk page says more is coming. I propose suspending this AfD for a week or two and seeing what happens. Alternatively, might mention in some list of special purpose programming languages or in a signal-processing related article. Phr 19:21, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep unless there is a better argument for deletion. Actually I see no reason stated at all by nominator. Where does the 5000 number come from? I see Wikipedia:Notability (software), but (a) that is only a proposed policy; and (b) it has no such criterion. LambiamTalk 03:18, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Hello, as the stub author I'd like to note number of downloads is not relevant, or even avaliability to download. The project is an interesting research project, with a limited userbase for the time being. The language has interesting articles published around it, and is quite unique, thus notable. Oyd11 14:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
  • delete no evidence of notability in substub of an article. Being a "unique" research project does not make it notable. Where are all these articles about it? Pete.Hurd 04:20, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
  • The articles are one link away from the link at the stub ([1]), I'd be suprised if anyone with DSP or audio-programming background would concider this not-notable. WP is full of much less notable programming language pages. Oyd11 17:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. (I'm the person who originally proposed this article for deletion.) Until we have have written a proper [[Wikipedia:Notability (programming langauges}guideline on programming languages]], being the subject of an article in an academic journal would be good enough for me. —Ruud 20:23, 17 April 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.