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The result was delete. The effort put into an article is, for better or worse, a very weak argument at AfD. Lists need to meet LISTN or LISTPURP, and no strong argument has been put forward for either criterion here. Vanamonde (
Talk)17:40, 29 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:NOTDIRECTORY. The vast majority of entries either have no article, or are cross-platform software. (As an aside, Minecraft is amusingly in the 'Visual novels' section.)
SWinxy (
talk)
18:55, 22 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak Delete I disagree with the assertion that it's a collection of "miscellaneous facts" or unnecessarily long, any more so than any other tech list.
List of Intel Celeron processors, for example. The number of columns for the parts that have been organized are comparatively concise. That said, from a maintainability standpoint, it's hard to argue that the information couldn't be conveyed better in other ways/places, such as
List of Linux games, or that it isn't overly prone to mistakes, due to many editors not knowing what "proprietary" means.
inclusivedisjunction (
talk)
21:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep On the basis of some of the arguments brought by
User:Inclusivedisjunction above: There are other lists, such as the
List of Linux games, and lists of various microprocessors, and they survive fine. The presence of the article helps to inform people who would want to migrate to Linux, away from proprietary operating systems, but who would need a specific proprietary program to run their business. The article
Firefox version history survived its second deletion proposal for some of the similar reasons, and that is to inform people from a reliable repository of information, which Wikipedia is. -Mardus /
talk02:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
It doesn't seem there was even a deletion debate on
List of Linux games and the
Firefox version history was not really a true keep outcome but a no-consensus (which defaults to keep), so I don't think that is a particular good argument. The current article uses even worse reference quality. I agree with @
Ajf773 that this list is unwieldy. There is also no
List of Microsoft Windows software because that would result in a far too big list, the same applies to Linux these days since so much software is cross-platform.
PhotographyEdits (
talk)
09:25, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
At the time the article was created, Linux was a very niche operating system, and remains so to this day on the desktop. Android was never a consideration. The common complaint has been, that 'there's no software for it' to justify migration from Windows to Linux. Some of the proprietary titles listed might also be Linux-only, and not available for Windows. -Mardus /
talk20:10, 25 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't yet want to vote for delete because I haven't checked this thoroughly but likely there are a) too many potential entries b) the list is missing a lot of notable entries c) it's not a list that's useful (or similar) to readers. Concerning c) and Mardus' point about people who want to migrate to Linux: they aren't looking for proprietary software that runs on Linux in specific but various specific applications or application purposes that run on Linux. For example, if Photoshop doesn't work on Linux distros, an alternative would be GIMP. But if Photoshop were to run on Linux it would be listed here instead of in a
List of graphics editor software for Linux with a subsection (or sortable column) for #Proprietary software. I suggest people work on actually meaningful and useful lists that are fairly complete and/or only have relatively few potential notable items. All in all I tend towards delete.
Strong Keep per Marcus. When I removed the PROD tag this week, I pointed out that this article had 802 edits by 348 editors. It’s been added to and maintained since 2006. That’s a lot of interest and effort by a lot of people. This AfD is ill-advised. Note: I encourage notifying some of those editors of this AfD - that’s a common practice that I don’t think has been done yet. —A. B.(
talk •
contribs •
global count)12:45, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
The fact that people are merely interested in it and/or the article is old are not good rationales for keeping information on Wikipedia, it has to be in the scope for the Wikipedia project and adhere to our other policies and guidelines.
PhotographyEdits (
talk)
13:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I think it could make a valid point for the topic being notable, that guidelines (not policy) even admits article popularity is likely to correspond with some form of notability which should then be straightforward to verify. However, it only got 627 pageviews in the last 30 days which is not a lot (actually that's very little albeit the imo notable topic of pandemic prevention – a topic one may be interested in in the near-term if continuation of present civilization is of value – doesn't get much more either). Having "802 edits by 348 editors" just shows that the page requires a lot of work to maintain and expand (probably still missing even a lot of basic info) which should rather work on more useful lists like "
List of gaming software for Linux" or similar and so on.
Prototyperspective (
talk)
20:09, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
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.
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 delete. The effort put into an article is, for better or worse, a very weak argument at AfD. Lists need to meet LISTN or LISTPURP, and no strong argument has been put forward for either criterion here. Vanamonde (
Talk)17:40, 29 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:NOTDIRECTORY. The vast majority of entries either have no article, or are cross-platform software. (As an aside, Minecraft is amusingly in the 'Visual novels' section.)
SWinxy (
talk)
18:55, 22 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak Delete I disagree with the assertion that it's a collection of "miscellaneous facts" or unnecessarily long, any more so than any other tech list.
List of Intel Celeron processors, for example. The number of columns for the parts that have been organized are comparatively concise. That said, from a maintainability standpoint, it's hard to argue that the information couldn't be conveyed better in other ways/places, such as
List of Linux games, or that it isn't overly prone to mistakes, due to many editors not knowing what "proprietary" means.
inclusivedisjunction (
talk)
21:01, 22 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep On the basis of some of the arguments brought by
User:Inclusivedisjunction above: There are other lists, such as the
List of Linux games, and lists of various microprocessors, and they survive fine. The presence of the article helps to inform people who would want to migrate to Linux, away from proprietary operating systems, but who would need a specific proprietary program to run their business. The article
Firefox version history survived its second deletion proposal for some of the similar reasons, and that is to inform people from a reliable repository of information, which Wikipedia is. -Mardus /
talk02:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
It doesn't seem there was even a deletion debate on
List of Linux games and the
Firefox version history was not really a true keep outcome but a no-consensus (which defaults to keep), so I don't think that is a particular good argument. The current article uses even worse reference quality. I agree with @
Ajf773 that this list is unwieldy. There is also no
List of Microsoft Windows software because that would result in a far too big list, the same applies to Linux these days since so much software is cross-platform.
PhotographyEdits (
talk)
09:25, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
At the time the article was created, Linux was a very niche operating system, and remains so to this day on the desktop. Android was never a consideration. The common complaint has been, that 'there's no software for it' to justify migration from Windows to Linux. Some of the proprietary titles listed might also be Linux-only, and not available for Windows. -Mardus /
talk20:10, 25 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't yet want to vote for delete because I haven't checked this thoroughly but likely there are a) too many potential entries b) the list is missing a lot of notable entries c) it's not a list that's useful (or similar) to readers. Concerning c) and Mardus' point about people who want to migrate to Linux: they aren't looking for proprietary software that runs on Linux in specific but various specific applications or application purposes that run on Linux. For example, if Photoshop doesn't work on Linux distros, an alternative would be GIMP. But if Photoshop were to run on Linux it would be listed here instead of in a
List of graphics editor software for Linux with a subsection (or sortable column) for #Proprietary software. I suggest people work on actually meaningful and useful lists that are fairly complete and/or only have relatively few potential notable items. All in all I tend towards delete.
Strong Keep per Marcus. When I removed the PROD tag this week, I pointed out that this article had 802 edits by 348 editors. It’s been added to and maintained since 2006. That’s a lot of interest and effort by a lot of people. This AfD is ill-advised. Note: I encourage notifying some of those editors of this AfD - that’s a common practice that I don’t think has been done yet. —A. B.(
talk •
contribs •
global count)12:45, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
The fact that people are merely interested in it and/or the article is old are not good rationales for keeping information on Wikipedia, it has to be in the scope for the Wikipedia project and adhere to our other policies and guidelines.
PhotographyEdits (
talk)
13:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I think it could make a valid point for the topic being notable, that guidelines (not policy) even admits article popularity is likely to correspond with some form of notability which should then be straightforward to verify. However, it only got 627 pageviews in the last 30 days which is not a lot (actually that's very little albeit the imo notable topic of pandemic prevention – a topic one may be interested in in the near-term if continuation of present civilization is of value – doesn't get much more either). Having "802 edits by 348 editors" just shows that the page requires a lot of work to maintain and expand (probably still missing even a lot of basic info) which should rather work on more useful lists like "
List of gaming software for Linux" or similar and so on.
Prototyperspective (
talk)
20:09, 23 May 2023 (UTC)reply
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
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