Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geexbox

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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 was no consensus to delete the article. - Mailer Diablo 14:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geexbox

Non-notable software product. Peyna 21:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete ad. Nickieee 22:12, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 11:03, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, non-notable. LordRM 17:58, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Apparently, it's a product for Linux users, and perhaps is the reason why people don't know much about it. It generates over a million hits on Google (and with that kind of name, most of those hits are genuine). I'm favor of keeping it. --Nishkid64 18:28, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as advertising. Geexbox+Linux gets 244 distinct ghits, down from the million-plus originally noted, which raises question of notability. The fact some people believe the top 100 distros should be covered is noted; on the other hand, we also have the guidelines of WP:SOFTWARE - article fails to show notability by multiple third-party non-trivial articles, major reviews, or awards; nor is it included in a major operating system distribution such as Debian or Fedora Core, and the maintainer of the distribution is independent from the software developer. Tychocat 09:43, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Unique Google results is a bad test - basically, Google takes the first thousand results, and finds the unique ones. There are 1,020,000 total ghits for the search you're suggesting (not much less than for GeexBox alone - though that has about twice the distinct ones). Basically, looks like a quirk of Google and/or the content. - makomk 11:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment - regarding Google, I agree, but at this level it's entirely symptomatic of the problem. I can Google, say, certain well-known fast-food chains and get literally millions of distinct hits, however. In any case, the subject still fails WP:SOFTWARE. Tychocat 14:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak keep I've heard of it, and it looks like lots of people online have heard of it (in a variety of languages - I see the German and Japanese Wikipedias also have articles, though those aren't obvious in the Google results). Unfortunately, I can't find any reliable sources and I'm not sure if it meets WP:SOFTWARE - it's the wrong type of software to ever meet 3 or 4, and I can't find any evidence it meets 1, though it could well be there (lots of Google results, too little time). -- makomk 11:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Apparently, so do the French, Finnish, and even English Wikipedias - we already had another article on it, and no-one here noticed. Redirecting to existing article (it's shorter, but this one's pretty badly-written). The AfD notice was removed in the process; I'm not sure what to do about that. Perhaps this AfD should just be abandoned; it didn't get much attention, and the new facts don't exactly help the case for deletion anyway. - makomk 11:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Not really a good article right now, but it could be turned into one. -- Schnee (cheeks clone) 12:53, 22 August 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.