Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Heber

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 NO CONSENSUS on another unhelpfully combined AfD. Clearly there is no consensus to delete any of them outright; editorial decisions can be taken elsewhere. -Splash^talk 19:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sean Heber, COW programming language, Whirl

Sean Heber is the co-creator of bebits.org are well-known website in the BeOS world. I don't know if that makes him notable enough for an article though. His esoteric languages seems to be non-notable. —Ruud 21:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

• "Keep COW". - M. Williams - This programming language is part of an important collection of esoteric programming languages. I am a teacher and use COW (amongst other things) to demonstrate the principles of programming to my students - beyond just how to program but to explain to them that they truly need to understand the concepts of programming. COW is even better than BF for this as the instructions in COW bear no relation to the tasks they perform. Students ahve to decide what they want to do and then go away and figure out how to do it and then work out how to express that in COW. I don't care about the Sean Heber article, but the COW article should stay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.10.197.188 (talk • contribs) 15:56, March 2, 2006.
• Delete all. —Ruud 21:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep and merge if cleaned up, I think this made digg or slashdot (but google isn't being nice to me with the link, but then, its 2 years old) Tawker 22:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This article was there before the Sean Heber article. I don't care about Heber but Whirl definitely represents one of the most interesting esoteric language concepts, a turning tarpit (sic). --ZeroOne 23:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete -- Chris 73 | Talk 00:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Sean Heber and Whirl as non-notable. Redirect COW to Brainfuck, where it is already adequately described in one sentence. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 03:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete for Sean Heber, weak keep for Whirl (but mark it a stub) -- it's at least an interesting idea and it has an implementation in flash; merge COW to Brainfuck or delete it. Iffy on the notability. If "Sean Heber" were more than just a stub I'd be a "weak keep" on that too, but it's not. --bmills 04:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or keep Heber and Whirl. Kappa 13:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Sean Heber and Whirl togther, if you must. Merge COW programming language with brainfuck. --JiFish(^Talk/_Contrib) 16:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Just way too fun. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.2.72.98 (talk • contribs) 09:51, February 26, 2006 (UTC)
• Keep the COW programming language. We are using it for a class in my college. IUPUI —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.68.77.70 (talk • contribs) 21:29, March 1, 2006 (UTC)
• Keep COW and Whirl; interesting conceptually, and I think COW in particular has a lot of currency in the right circles, even if it's less noteable out of them. I've heard of it multiple times from different sources, and it was also mentioned at a uni. Articles have enough content to stand on their own for now, but could use expansion, a la the article for Ook!. Weak delete or merge for Sean Heber; there's hardly enough there for the article to even qualify as a stub, but it might be okay if there were more data. Possibly mark any kept as stubs? Tanaku 21:46, 1 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.