Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scriptol

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 of the debate was DELETE per request from author. Although the article was created by an anon IP, I am fairly certain User:Splang is the author because he is the only one to vote "keep". JIP | Talk 18:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scriptol

A programming language which does not establish his notability. There has been repeated spamming to the website in other articles like algorithm and programming language. Website has an Alexa rank of over 2 million and google turns up noting more than some directory listings. The SourceForge project only has one developer and no forum activity. —Ruud 13:17, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. —Ruud 13:17, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per CS knowledge of nominating admin.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 03:37, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Someone (or two someones) wrote a fairly extensive Wikibook for Scriptol. [1] There exists scriptol.com, scriptol.net and scriptol.org. 280K Google hits. --Fang Aili 15:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC). Delete. Ruud convinced me this isn't notable. --Fang Aili 17:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • From the IP address it seems that the WikiBook was written by the same person who wrote the article and keeps adding linkspam from www.scriptol.com/net/org. Google only returns 212 unique hits. —Ruud 16:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment – I get "about 276,000" hits for a google search on scriptol, most of which are not directory listings. Lambiam 16:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • scriptol -wikipedia gives me 212 unique hits. Enties definitly look like webdirectory listings/download sites/perfect places to spam to me. —Ruud 16:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Ruud, you are speaking about listings/downloads for a compiler but this is a settle for the Scriptol language. - Splang 08:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a new language, just entered at Sourceforge. The number of users grows up quickly; consider the language itself, not only the number of open source projects: interpreted programs are all open source, but Scriptol is compiled to binary executables. Scriptol will certainly be a major language in the future thanks to its features. - Splang 08:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Setting aside WP:NOT a crystal ball, I fail to see any features of this language that are even notable. Is it statically or dynamically and strongly or weakly typed? The 'new' control structures are hardly new. kotepho 09:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• I discoreved a page on the Web, that holds a reply, in History, second paragraph. - Splang 10:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. Simtel displays more than 10000 downloads for the Scriptol compiler. Click here and search for Scriptol. I don't have the number of downloads from other repositories. I don't know how Ruud has found the number of 212 but has he performed a such search with other entries in Wikipedia? - Splang 08:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. We are using Scriptol in our company, and it save us lot of typing! Good language. Michaelli 19:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Michaelli (contribs) is almost certainly a sockpuppet of Splang. --Fang Aili 20:26, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

The person (thanks anyway) doesn't know the policy, but I have read the document. It is said that the admin must be impartial. - Splang 06:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. On my user page I have made a comparison of the first programming languages in the alphabetical list on Wikipedia. It is clear that if Scriptol is not notable, 90% of programming languages are not, and should be deleted also. And Scriptol is a new language, the number of users grows up day after day. - Splang 07:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Give me a break you been spamming links to your site for several months now and there is still no evidence it is even becoming slightly notable. And Google only gives you 212 unique hits. Please come back when there's at least one major program written in Scriptol or when you can provide evidence that it has a significant userbase. —Ruud 12:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • This is not my website. Your search method is surely limiting. On Yahoo, including all foreign languages and without Wikipedia, I got 34900 and 4300 on MSN. The point is to compare Scriptol with other programming languages at Wikipedia, as there is no absolute rule for notability. - Splang 10:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Lost enough time here, I delete, forget this programming language, it is too bad. Use Mumps or Algol instead. - Splang 13:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete The article fails to describe the language properly and I do not see any evidence of major use. Given a proper encyclopedic article on the language and evidence of someone using it I would probably change my mind. It does not take much to make a new language and compiler that no one uses. kotepho 23:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
  • The number of downloads is evidence of use. It is impossible to know a program is written in Scriptol, once compiled. I have just revised my judgment: forget Scriptol, it is not for you. - Splang 10:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. I decided to delete it myself. Wikipedia is not so important, I have lost to much time here, and I am disgussed by this affair. - Splang 12:05, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. I've listed the now blank page to be speedied. Lambiam 18:42, 12 March 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.