Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waitpid()

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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. CDC (talk) 9 July 2005 00:48 (UTC)

[edit] Waitpid()

Looks like a verbatim copy of the function's man page. I don't think that counts as a copyvio, but it does make the article unencyclopedic. Delete or rewrite as shorter and more layman-friendly. — JIP | Talk 30 June 2005 13:00 (UTC)

  • I was going to say: Keep but rewrite/reformat a bit. definately NOT rewrite in layman terms. No layman would ever care about multithread programming. before i vote, i got to ask a question: is there a wiki-man-pages project or something? if it does, it should be moved there. Project2501a 30 June 2005 13:20 (UTC)
    • Wikibooks takes all of the free instructional manuals anyone cares to write. It doesn't take copyright violations, so the copyright status of this text should be ascertained. Uncle G June 30, 2005 19:12 (UTC)
  • Delete because Wikipedia is not a collection of source material (please disregard this vote if someone converts the man page material to an article before this VfD is closed). Sietse 30 June 2005 13:44 (UTC)
  • Delete: I can't picture this being encyclopedic. Maybe redirect concurrent programming? Peter Grey 30 June 2005 13:53 (UTC)
  • Delete - There are better places to find online man pages that Wikipedia, ex. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi. --Daedalus-Prime 30 June 2005 18:01 (UTC)
  • Delete. Depending on which man page it's copied from, it could even be a copyvio -- I don't think the GPL is compatible with the GFDL. --Carnildo 30 June 2005 22:34 (UTC)
  • Delete — ABI man pages belong in a book somewhere. Not appropriate for an encyclopedia. — RJH 1 July 2005 17:22 (UTC)
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