Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosetta Stone (Software)

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The result of the debate was keep. FCYTravis 07:16, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rosetta Stone (Software)

Reads like an advert, and the huge list of awards (most very minor, e.g. magazine review scores) is factual but surely one-sided. Hard to separate relevant Google results from the rest, but the website has an Alexa rank of about 20000, so seems non-notable. I think delete but if not then it needs significant reworking. Agentsoo 01:32, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

• My first impression of this one is to delete as advertising. If someone can prove it's notable, then I'd consider changing my vote. AlbertR 01:35, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Cleanup and keep. I don't know if this is notable, but if someone rewrites it so it doesn't look like an advert, it should stay. AlbertR 02:15, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: I've used this software before in my old elementary school, and I've seen it elsewhere as well. Also, please make sure you use subst: when you create these subpages, to keep everything properly formatted, like this: {{subst:vfd2 ...}} Thanks. --ArmadniGeneral 01:58, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: I absolutely agree that the page reads like an advertisement and needs massive cleanup. That being said, this is notable software that is pretty much in a league of its own. The market for language learning software is much smaller than for photo editors, but this is the Photoshop of its market. If that makes sense. Nandesuka 02:00, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

How notable is the language learning software market as a whole? I don't know, but if the market itself is not sufficiently notable to get in here then surely none of the programs within it are notable either. But If I have underestimated the notability of this program then I apologise and can only hope that the page gets cleaned up. Agentsoo 02:05, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, given the above comments. Although it's clearly advert-like material at the moment, so stubbify. Flowerparty ^talk 02:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Note: I've made some edits to try and clean-up the advertisement-like material. --ArmadniGeneral 02:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Rename Rosetta Stone (software) with a lower-case S.—Wahoofive (talk) 04:30, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Cleanup and keep. - meets basic 'i've heard of it' criteria = notable enough (IMHO) - if not cleaned up, then VfD again....... Petesmiles 10:15, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Blatant advertising. Ought to be deleted and rewritten from scratch by a genuine neutral. Anadine 11:41, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. I have heard of it, too, so it's notable enough for me. I cropped the award list a bit to make the article more neutral. -- Marcika 13:25, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. This is probably the most notable language learning software out there. Oh, and rename as per Wahoofive -- Rune Welsh ταλκ 14:03, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I never used the software, but I know that at least a few schools I've been to have/had it. It definitely is notable enough for WP. ral315 20:40, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Very notable software. --Oldak Quill 20:49, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but rename to Rosetta Stone (software) - grubber 13:32, 2005 August 4 (UTC)
• Keep, and send to Cleanup. arj 23:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

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