Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merchant of Venice (computer program)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 15:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merchant of Venice (computer program)

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No assertion of notability per WP:SOFTWARE. Possible conflict of interest, see my talk page for details. Contested prod. MER-C 02:50, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

"Prod" itself asserts this is not a policy: Nice suggestion, but no value. Now you drop a guideline: Possible conflict of interest with what? You can't just just drop templates on pages and run without leaving specifics! Don't you read the policy? You want more editors on this article? What are you trying to do, save 128 bytes of disk space? This article is not a self promotion. This is a cool program that needs mentioning. This is not vanity. It sure would be nice to know how to defend the article when you just use a BOT to drop templates on pages that show up on the WikiAdmin monitor, but you really should give some specifics. You did the same thing with your PROD template. I'm thinking "overactive admin" here. Come on, what's your hard-on for? Drop that BOT and actually type! // Brick Thrower 04:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

"Possible conflict of interest with what?" With building an encyclopedia that is from a neutral point of view. This also means that Wikipedia is neither an indiscriminate collection of information nor an advertising service, i.e. we should not have an article on every single piece of software out there, especially when people write about software they wrote themselves. Hence the notability guidelines. MER-C 05:16, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Delete // Brick Thrower 16:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Beta software with no third party reviews and 5000 downloads from Sourceforge ain't notable per WP:SOFTWARE. There's a mention of it under Technical analysis software, which is enough. Tubezone 07:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete By the article's discussion and also via google searches for "merchant of venice" "computer program" it would seem to be non-notable. Furthermore, the name space could be equally well used for the commercially available Merchant of Venice computer game. Most of the google hits appear to be for computerized versions of Shakespeare's play, though of note is the first entry--the article up for debate.--eleuthero 17:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment This is an example of why WP attracts spam and self promotion. WP has a Google PageRank of 8, and typically will come out close to the top of any search for article names it contains. Tubezone 18:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. NN. Nick Graves 22:11, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, also borderline spam (just because it's open source doesn't mean it can't be spam). Probably not bad enough for speedy, but not good enough to keep. I'm a huge fan of open source; run 100% (except for games). But Wikipedia's standards are Wikipedia's standards, and this doesn't meet 'em. Xtifr _tälk 18:46, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
• delete If it's a cool program write something about its merits somewhere, so we dont have to decide by guesswork. DGG 00:13, 5 December 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.