Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Symphony OS

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was KEEP. Golbez 06:54, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Symphony OS

Advertising. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Using Wikipedia to astroturf? RickK 04:17, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Note: the VfD tag was removed on 12:39, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC) and readded 16:42, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC). --cesarb 16:44, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep but cleanup: Delete the section about "Promotion Efforts". That is obviously the problem people have with this article, but it's ridiculous! Take it out and get over it people! Move on! --TomatoBob 17:50, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: Biggest problem with this is that it's in the middle of a revert/edit war. Clearly notable, as I noted on the talk page. Subject of a recent slashdot article Wikibofh 04:39, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Weak keep if cleaned up and NPOVed. It was the subject of a Slashdot article because its creator used it to advertise. --FCYTravis 04:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: It mayhave PoV issues, but it's a real system with news about it, so certainly there should be a Wikipedia entry on it. —BenFrantzDale 05:24, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless somebody creates at least a stub on Clay Shirky before this discussion is closed. If the Shirky article is created by then, disregard this vote. --Michael Snow 05:31, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - The problem is with the content of the article, not the article itself. Just make it better and less advertising gren 05:36, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep' if cleaned up. Some notability. JamesBurns 05:43, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep bceause it's got some good info on the distro Trenchcoatjedi
• Keep' so long as it is maintained as an encyclopedic entry, not something resembling a press release. --mtz206 12:20, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep There's no reason to delete this article. It is a perfectly legitimate article. I am going to remove this VFD check since it was completely superfluous. There is a clear consensus here about keeping it. No need to waste our time. EliasAlucard|Talk 14:45, 11 Jun, 2005 (UTC)

  Elias, it's not up to you to decide whether a VfD is superfluous or not. Please let the Wikipedia community have its say first. -- ChrisO 13:08, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  Why is this a VfD? Can you give me one good reason for that? Every Linux distro has its own article on Wikipedia. Why should this one not have it? Realise that it is not justifiable to delete it. EliasAlucard|Talk 15:21, 11 Jun, 2005 (UTC)

  It looks like most people agree with you. If you wait and let this process run its course, it will be a sign of strength for the article. DenisMoskowitz 14:08, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

• Keep it seems to be notable. DenisMoskowitz 14:08, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
• Keep but cleanup Aecis 15:23, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Are we going to create articles on every little splinter the Linux community creates? This thing was just released as alpha software. I can't see how that makes it notable. --Xcali 17:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  It will most likely cease to be alpha software, and when that happens, it will be notable enough to be worthy of a Wikipedia entry. EliasAlucard|Talk 19:34, 11 Jun, 2005 (UTC)

  Strictly speaking, that's a reason to vote against it - Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. If it's not notable until later, it should not have an article until later. (Note that I think it's notable now.)DenisMoskowitz 02:24, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)

• Keep there's nothing wrong with this article.
  • Anonymous user, this is their only edit.DenisMoskowitz 02:24, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
• Keep SymphonyOS really exists, and so merits a page. I think this is more an 'edit for NPOV' problem. Clay Shirky
• Keep page; take up a collection to send EliasAlucard to an anger-management course. --134.244.168.222 18:47, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: EliasAlucard seems to have removed the {{vfd}} template from the page. --Dcfleck 12:58, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)

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