Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scrinchy
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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was REDIRECT to Tiny web servers. Already done. -Splash 00:52, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Scrinchy
This appears to be vanity page for a small program the creator made. Google for 'Scrinchy web server' returns 0 hits. There exists another product with the exact same description called Scrunchy (23kb tiny webserver), which is a legitimate program (available on freshmeat), so this could be a spoof of some sort as well, but I don't know what the motive would be. Either way neither of these is encyclopaedic. Darkfred 17:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC) Withdrawn as per the discussion below, this has evolved into something more appropriate --Darkfred 21:00, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- I am the creator of Scrunchy, which I have renamed Scrinchy because the former name has a connotation I dislike (ask any woman). I have never put Scrunchy on sourceforge, but I put it on Freshmeat. If you search today on either SF or FM you will not find Scrunchy; you will find Scrinchy on FM. So just keep the Scrinchy page, it would be reckless to remove it. (anonymous comment by User:207.245.94.146)
- Comment Sorry was thinking freshmeat but typed sourceforge. I actually think your project is quite cool myself, don't take it personally. However, the bar for including products and programs on wikipedia is quite high. Your program has not yet reached the point of encyclopaedic notability. Apache has, but then apache runs 57% of the web. Hundreds of millions of computers use it daily. --Darkfred 17:48, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- more comments There would be no problem if you created an article on tiny web servers, there is lots of info to cover like embedded , server-on-chip systems and minimalists servers like your own. The topic would be interesting to enough people to be an article. You could even link the word Scrinchy into it. --Darkfred 17:48, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- All right, I've created a page for the ones I've found... Tiny_web_servers (anonymous comment by User:207.245.94.146)
- Thats a good start. Still not encyclopedic but would function as a stub. you can redirect the old article to the new one. (see Wikipedia:Redirect for information on how to do it) And i will withdraw my nomination for deletion. I have also cleaned up the formatting of these comments, look at the wikicode if you want to see how comments are usually formatted.--Darkfred 20:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- Comment Sorry was thinking freshmeat but typed sourceforge. I actually think your project is quite cool myself, don't take it personally. However, the bar for including products and programs on wikipedia is quite high. Your program has not yet reached the point of encyclopaedic notability. Apache has, but then apache runs 57% of the web. Hundreds of millions of computers use it daily. --Darkfred 17:48, 8 August 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.
