Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SkyOS

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 was an incomprehensible mess. Evaluating this discussion was extremely difficult due to the large number of IPs and new accounts contributing to this. As such, I'm closing this discussion and relisting it so we can hash this out. Blueboy96 14:56, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SkyOS

  ATTENTION!

If you came here because someone asked you to, or you read a message on a forum, please note that this is not a majority vote, but rather a discussion to establish a consensus among Wikipedia editors on whether a page is suitable for this encyclopedia. Wikipedia has policies and guidelines to help us decide this, and deletion decisions are made on the merits of the arguments, not by counting votes.

Nonetheless, you are welcome to participate and express your opinions. Remember to assume good faith on the part of others and to sign your posts on this page by adding ~~~~ at the end.

Note: Comments by suspected single-purpose accounts can be tagged using {{subst:spa|username}}
SkyOS (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Advertisement, not-notable Imacreditcard (talk) 16:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Comment In response to the only valid reason for proposing this article for deletion, I have taken it upon myself to completely rewrite the current SkyOS Wikipedia article. Please see the article's discussion page for more information (under the heading "March 4th Rewrite").

Alex Forster (talk) 01:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Comment to administrators: If you look at the people who are voting to keep this article, you'll notice that the majority of them are IPs, people who recently registered, and even people who signed their name twice. Masterhomer 20:15, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

KeepSkyOS is a popular hobbyist operating system, and is notable and identifiable enough for a Wikipedia entry. The article should be tagged as reading like an advertisement and corrected, and deletion is totally unnecessary. tapo (talk) 13:48, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep It should not be deleted, information about this Operating System should be available for anyone. The atricle about SkyOS needt to be updated, It needs to be extended. This is not an advertention, it's information. And it should be able to be on wikipedia, like there is information about a lot of other operating systems. --A-v-S (talk) 14:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC) — A-v-S (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

  • Strong Delete Advertisements don't belong on Wikipedia -- Carerra"Chatter" 17:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment I removed the sections that were tagged as being ad-like. Blueboy96 17:38, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep The article needs a vast rewrite. Wikipedia has entries for Syllable, Atheos and ReactOS, surely there is room for SkyOS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.205.61.99 (talk) 17:40, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep Removed the critism section because of complete wrong and therefore irrelevant information. (see articles dicussion page for more details) Robert Szeleney, 90.146.34.54 (talk) 19:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC) — 90.146.34.54 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Keep It seems that this argument is raised more against the philosophy behind SkyOS, rather than the SkyOS article itself —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.43.167 (talk) 19:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep It's a long-standing article (active since at least 2004) about a popular, actively-developed piece of software, and it gives relevant and non-biased information. It is by no means an advertisement. Take a look at the content, and even the page history: nothing here is an advertisement any more than the OS X page is an advertisement. And as to irrelevancy, try searching for articles containing "skyos". At least fifteen computer-related articles mention it ON WIKIPEDIA. I think a user with otherwise no history on Wikipedia has learned the procedures for deletion and is now wasting our time. Alex Forster, 68.32.200.186 (talk) 21:03, 2 March 2008 (UTC) — 68.32.200.186 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Keep per above reasons. ArcAngel (talk) 21:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep Shall we mark the Windows and Osx pages for deletion as well? It is not because a product is a commercial product that it cannot have a wikipedia page. If people are not happy with the (contents of the) article they should discuss this first. The page is not intended as advertising but to provide information to people that want to know more. The comments above already indicate well enough the weak reasons for deletion... Peter Speybrouck — 157.193.5.103 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 21:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC).

Keep Shall we mark the Windows and Osx pages for deletion as well? It is not because a product is a commercial product that it cannot have a wikipedia page. If people are not happy with the (contents of the) article they should discuss this first. The page is not intended as advertising but to provide information to people that want to know more. The comments above already indicate well enough the weak reasons for deletion... Peter Speybrouck — 157.193.5.103 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 21:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC).

Keep I agree with Peter above me, this is not a form of advertising, if you think so then you need to deleted half the articles on wikipedia.... Liam Dawe — 82.46.55.243 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. The preceding unsigned comment was added at 23:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC).

  • Delete based on a lack of third-party references and nothing to show that this is actually in use in any significant degree, or even being talked about to any significant degree. For an OS to be worth having a Wikipedia article on, there has to be some solid independent third-party mentions out there, and none are listed. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 10:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Mentions-

Alex Forster, 68.32.200.186 (talk) 18:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Keep SkyOS deserves an entry. The article does need a rewrite and proper formatting but I think it's improving. —Preceding unsigned comment added by A305w (talk • contribs) 14:55, 4 March 2008

Keep Keep per aforementioned reasons. -- Stormwatch (talk) 20:03, 6 March 2008 (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.

Keep I agree the article is not as it should be, but why waste time discussing its deletion when it can be used to correct it?