Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Softether

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 keep. W.marsh 18:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Softether

Contested PROD. No clear assertion of notability, verifiability difficult to establish since the linked web page is written in Japanese, closed source product with no claimed advantages over OpenVPN. "Softether" does get a huge number of Google hits, quite a few in Japanese, if that matters. At first glance, even the ones in English are not very informative. Phr (talk) 15:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• Open to persuasion but it looks like a delete to me so far, as nominator. Phr (talk) 15:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• delete doesn't claim notability, and not even available in English anymore. -Steve Sanbeg 15:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I have added an English reference. --Kusunose 13:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Kusunose 17:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. SoftEther appears to be very popular in Japan and judging by a (rather limited number of) reviews/papers in English is considered to be a sort of national technological wonder. Perhaps the article needs to be reworked to focus on this fact. Researching products/services in VPN area inevitably results in SoftEther hits, so it's definitely a keep. Alex Pankratov 00:37, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, I would've thought to delete it, except, assuming Alex Pankratov's comments are accurate, it has enough to establish notability —Preceding unsigned comment added by SneakyTodd (talk • contribs)

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