Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WPopac

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 Redirect to OPAC in lieu of deletion. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-12-27 05:26Z

[edit] WPopac

WPopac (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Fails WP:SOFT and WP:NOTE ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 19:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per above. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 19:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:CORP and proposed guidelines at WP:SOFTWARE. Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Neil916 (Talk) 20:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Winning an award is not a criteria for notability, either. Neil916 (Talk) 21:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per Neil916. I also have some WP:AUTO concerns as suggested by the creator's username.// I c e d K o l a 22:23, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP:BIO and given creator name, I'd guess Vanity of vanity, all is vanity. SkierRMH 04:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as insufficiently notable. No non-trivial coverage by reliable, third-party published sources. -- Satori Son 04:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Do Not Delete: I know it's vain to post articles for one's own projects, but WPopac did win one of the first Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. From the press release:

The ten recipients were selected from among more than 200 nominees by the MATC Award Committee, which included Berners‐Lee, Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim O’Reilly (Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media).

$50,000 to the Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH, www.plymouth.edu), for the development of the WPOPAC online public access catalog (http://wpopac.blogs.plymouth.edu). Plymouth State University was recognized for its development of WPOPAC, an innovative online public access catalog system that allows any library to make its online catalog interactive, by turning each library record (e.g., each book or serial) into a blog page onto which users can post their own comments and content. The Committee noted WPOPAC’s ability to enable online library access in libraries of any size, as well as the project’s potential to engage patrons more deeply and interactively with libraries and their offerings. Plymouth State plans to use the award to purchase catalog content from the Library of Congress and make it freely available to all, thereby eliminating a substantial cost barrier to the online publication of catalogs by small libraries.

• Comment: Vanity aside, your involvement here violates our Conflict of Interest guidelines. I know it is tempting to use Wikipedia to publicize a project, especially one as well-intentioned as this one, but WPOPAC simply does not meet our standards for sufficient notability, and this article will likely be deleted shortly. If and when WPOPAC does receive coverage by reliable sources, please allow the article to be recreated by someone who is unrelated to the project. Thanks, Satori Son 16:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per above. Just H 23:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
• Do Not Delete WPOPAC has been gaining momentum in the library community and has generated much conversation since the Mellon Award announcement. It is poised to become a player in the world of online access provision. Possible facilitating libraries' presence in the social web - libraries have long been stewards of social capital and, so far, have lacked the tools to participate in this forum. WPOpac could help that. Let's give it a chance! — 71.233.252.61 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Do Not Delete WPOPAC is a substantial open source project in the realm of libraries, especially small libraries. A simple Google search will show you how many people are talking about this. It is important. Zbtirrell 04:11, 22 December 2006 (UTC). — Zbtirrell (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

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.