Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VX2

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was delete. FCYTravis 5 July 2005 23:50 (UTC)

[edit] VX2

Not notable. --W(t) 00:09, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC) *Comment - it gets 145,000 Google hits, and people like Lavasoft provide specific tools for dealing with it. WP:NOT a FAQ, but there is Category:Spyware, Category:Malware and Category:Computer viruses. No vote yet, while I do a little looking around. -Splash 00:42, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete — I'm persuaded.Splash 5 July 2005 01:54 (UTC)
• Oh, I suppose I should say for fairness sake I did remove some external links from the article per WP:EL before deciding to VfD it. --W(t) 00:48, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
• I'm gonna say Weak delete... virii, trojans and spyware aren't really something we need to cover in too much depth (i.e. an article for each individual one). If it's one of the more famous of its kind, perhaps a merge into a list of such things would be preferable. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:53, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It is impossible to maintain individual viruses on Wikipedia. Pavel Vozenilek 01:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into one article with a list of viruses and descriptions. EatAlbertaBeef 04:13, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge if it's possible. The Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a virus database. Too tough to maintain and whatnot. -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 06:08, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge possibly. Although the virus database thing he said up there may just be a good idea, but only for important viruses... but then again we already have pages for the really important viruses. So merge Redwolf24 06:19, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge or delete - You can fill an encyclopedia with malware information! (Look at symantec's website...) --Phroziac (talk) 13:08, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete It was started by me and isn't edited much... so I'd say delete. After reading the posts here, I must say they are valid and no one has expanded it much, so I won't keep it. I created it as a stub for the dead links... - LostAccount 18:54, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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