Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IEEE 754r/Annex Z

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 its unsourced and without any direct confirmation from an editor who hasnt edited since May I'm reluctant to userfy. That said if JakeVortex (talk · contribs) contacts another administrator or myself specifically requesting for it to be userfied with the intention of improving the article then that should occur. Gnangarra 14:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IEEE 754r/Annex Z

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I'm creating this nomination page on User:EdJohnston's behalf, so he probably knows the reason better than I do, but from what I see the page is unreferenced, asserts little independant notability, and could be covered quite well as a subsection of the IEEE 754r page. --tjstrf talk 20:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Thanks to tjstrf for completing the nomination! (I was defeated by the slash in the article name). Here's what I would have put in the nomination statement: 'The latest draft of the IEEE 754r proposal contains no Annex Z and nothing about arbitrary precision formats. (The word 'arbitrary' does not occur in the text). The last edit in which anyone added new technical information to the present article was 31 March, 2005, by an editor named JakeVortex who has not come back here since. It appears that this is an obsolete proposal that might have been considered at one time for inclusion in IEEE754r but is no longer active. Deletion seems the wisest course. That would make the previous suggestion of merging the material to IEEE 754r unnecessary. In fact, there is no properly-referenced material to merge. I left a message for JakeVortex, the creator of the article'. EdJohnston 21:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete it would be better in the IEEE 754r article, but from what I see, the information is unlikely to be scavenged and is an implausible typo. Will ^(talk) 20:16, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Savidan 22:30, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Except for some geek conference from 2004 [1], the only mention of this on the web appears to be Wikipedia and mirrors. Whatever it was was left by the wayside. -N 00:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
• Userfy them to User:JakeVortex who has been participating in the process to some degree. A mention on the main article already exists, and this article is full of details that are not verifiable unless we can get our hands on the Annex Z. However, this mentions the Wikipedia pages as a resource, and IEEE 754r/Annex L is also a work in progress by the same user. John Vandenberg 17:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. The current version of IEEE 754r contains no Annex L either. I suspect that the Annex L article should also should be deleted. (A proposal that was never made is surely not notable). I wish we could get the attention of User:JakeVortex (=Jeff Kidder, according to his user page) but his email is not enabled and he's not edited since May. EdJohnston 17:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

• Agreed, changing !vote to userfy this and Annex L. -N 20:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
• Userfy 132.205.44.5 01:11, 27 June 2007 (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.