Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SdlBasic

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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. Shanel 05:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SdlBasic

Non-notable BASIC implementation. Not sure why it even needs to be a new language: SDL is a library, not a language feature. Few sourceforge downloads, weak forum presence, etc. Wikipedia article advocates creating subpages with code examples (a whole section titled "Code Download (Hosted on Wikipedia)"); see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SdlBasic:code:painting. Delete —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-25 11:00Z

  • Delete per nom. Leyasu 11:08, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete It's just the wxBasic interpreter with a different library tacked on. Ruby 12:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep there is a need for it, the wxBasic language is extremly usefull and easy to learn and when coupled with the SDL library it creates a powerfull MULTIPLATFORM engine (the main use of this is for creation of games, and the MULTIPLATFORM is a major improvment on wxBasic) the language also includes a IDE for devlopment that works on macos, linux and windows. This is a MAJOR improvment on wxBasic and it does need to be a new language. I have fixed the problem with creating subpages, by hosting the examples on my website. R4000 22:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks for taking care of the problem with the example code articles. However, sdlBasic is still not notable enough for a Wikipedia article, at least not by itself. It might be OK to merge it into wxBasic. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-25 18:19Z
  • Delete, per nom. -Rebelguys2 19:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. I hope R4000 isn't scared off; I tried to hold people back for a few hours as he was new and working in good faith. However, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for subjects of verifiable significance, not a free web host for your own work. Gazpacho 19:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Latinus 20:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. --NaconKantari e|t||c|m 20:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge 20,000 Google hits. Ashibaka tock 21:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Which shows exactly why you shouldn't rely on Google blindly. sdlbasic -wiki -forum 623 hits. —Ruud 20:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete trivial software, no user base. Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 23:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Wikipedia is not a free web host. I wish R4000 all the best with his project. Stifle 14:29, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep I have cleaned the article up and rewrote it, it is now more infomational and provides a more detailed description to sdlBasic, and i would like to know why some of you belive it is not worthy of becoming a programming language... the same could be said about lots of languages that act as layers for other librarys, but they havent been deleted, are you just targeting my article because i am new? If so i think you are very selfish and it seems you are targeting me, but if your not please say so! R4000 20:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Ummm... generally, stylistic things and userboxes like what you've added go on User pages, not articles. Ashibaka tock 03:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. There are a ton of Google hits on this search string. Current version is reasonably well written and can probably be improved without too much difficulty into a good encyclopedia article. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 20:38, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete. I can see non-notability, and wikipedia is not a free webhost/instruction manual, however I would reconsider my vote if the article significently changed. Ian13ID:540053 22:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
  • (My opinion holds that this implementation of Basic is not notable, the information here is unencyclopedic, and the article should be deleted.) Note that the article author has created a bunch of subpages like SdlBasic/Links and SdlBasic/Wikiproject and templates like Template:SdlBasic-stub. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-29 20:44Z


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.