The result was merge to List of SGI products. MBisanz talk 14:40, 30 September 2008 (UTC) reply
article serves only to promote a non-notable product and serve as a product guide for same. No significant coverage in reliable third party sources for verifiability with the "sources" in the article being press releases and/or primary source. I previously tagged for speedy as spam but, as it has been pointed out I'm not an expert and have not contributed significantly to similar articles in the past. I'm nominating in order to althose with said knowledge to debate the merits of the article and it's subject in full accordance with the policies and guidelines of notability, verifiability, and WP:NOT all of which I feel this fails. Jasynnash2 ( talk) 15:39, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
The article was first proposed for a speedy deletion. It as been move to article for deletion.
SGI as a compagny has been the major actor on Computer Graphics hardware in the past 30 years, having nearly invented the concept of graphic workstation.
Having encountered difficulties in the later 90s and in the first half of this decade SGI lost its position as a leader in the field of graphic workstations. Despite that fact, products by SGI during that period have their wikipedia articles, which are not contested ( SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro ).
At the end of 2007, SGI redeployed its visualization stategy. Implementing that new strategy, they release a new product line SGI Virtu during first half of 2005. Such a release represent the most important strategy change in SGI in the past 15 years, as it represent a change in architecture and a change in operating system strategy. This happens when all workstation manufacturers exits the RISC-UNIX workstation market ( HP-UX, IBM, Sun ).
For these reasons, I think the SGI Virtu line of product does not deserves any less an article that SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro, but also Dell Precision, IBM IntelliStation.
Of course the article is only a stub, and few of the points mentionned above are yet present in the article, nor sourced. When creating the article I only planned to invest at first a small time to it, even thought I ended up devoting far mor time to keep the article alive than both what I intended and what would have been needed to improve the article.
The article in its present form is only factual, does not try to promote any product, service or compagny. It mention the existence of a product line, and a few very basic technical aspects. When creating the article I tried to source the information, and keep meaningfulllinks with other wikipedia articles.
-- Dwarfpower ( talk) 16:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
criteria from Wikipedia:Notability
These are significant coverages by wikipedia standards as defined in Wikipedia:Notability
These sources are all independant secondary sources. They are long lasting publication in various languages.
As advised these are secondary sources.
All these sources are independant of Silicon Graphics, either as corporation or in regards to their business source fo revenue
Additional information. No notability tag was added to the article to give the community the opportunity to establish notability of the subject. This article was written 13 minutes priori to the request for deletion !
Silicon graphic article organisation already is based on the existance of individuals article for its different product lines. That has been the case for two years and a half without any problem to my knowledge. merging information regarding this particular product line with the Silicon Graphics article would unbalance the article and compromise current quality of existing articles. -- Dwarfpower ( talk) 20:54, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Just browse Category:Products by company and take a pick.
None of the people i'v seen requesting the deletion of the article sofar are familiar with Computer graphics and computer hardware, at least none made any contribution in the field in their last 500 contribution. I don't try to diminish anyone's merit, but of course most of you haven't heard about it, it's not your field. I think most of you haven't heard of Étienne de La Boétie either, and that dioes not dimishes his merits or yours. This whole thing started on accusation of beeing blatantly advertising a product, now I don't even here about it anymore... -- Dwarfpower ( talk) 21:14, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
The result was merge to List of SGI products. MBisanz talk 14:40, 30 September 2008 (UTC) reply
article serves only to promote a non-notable product and serve as a product guide for same. No significant coverage in reliable third party sources for verifiability with the "sources" in the article being press releases and/or primary source. I previously tagged for speedy as spam but, as it has been pointed out I'm not an expert and have not contributed significantly to similar articles in the past. I'm nominating in order to althose with said knowledge to debate the merits of the article and it's subject in full accordance with the policies and guidelines of notability, verifiability, and WP:NOT all of which I feel this fails. Jasynnash2 ( talk) 15:39, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
The article was first proposed for a speedy deletion. It as been move to article for deletion.
SGI as a compagny has been the major actor on Computer Graphics hardware in the past 30 years, having nearly invented the concept of graphic workstation.
Having encountered difficulties in the later 90s and in the first half of this decade SGI lost its position as a leader in the field of graphic workstations. Despite that fact, products by SGI during that period have their wikipedia articles, which are not contested ( SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro ).
At the end of 2007, SGI redeployed its visualization stategy. Implementing that new strategy, they release a new product line SGI Virtu during first half of 2005. Such a release represent the most important strategy change in SGI in the past 15 years, as it represent a change in architecture and a change in operating system strategy. This happens when all workstation manufacturers exits the RISC-UNIX workstation market ( HP-UX, IBM, Sun ).
For these reasons, I think the SGI Virtu line of product does not deserves any less an article that SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro, but also Dell Precision, IBM IntelliStation.
Of course the article is only a stub, and few of the points mentionned above are yet present in the article, nor sourced. When creating the article I only planned to invest at first a small time to it, even thought I ended up devoting far mor time to keep the article alive than both what I intended and what would have been needed to improve the article.
The article in its present form is only factual, does not try to promote any product, service or compagny. It mention the existence of a product line, and a few very basic technical aspects. When creating the article I tried to source the information, and keep meaningfulllinks with other wikipedia articles.
-- Dwarfpower ( talk) 16:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
criteria from Wikipedia:Notability
These are significant coverages by wikipedia standards as defined in Wikipedia:Notability
These sources are all independant secondary sources. They are long lasting publication in various languages.
As advised these are secondary sources.
All these sources are independant of Silicon Graphics, either as corporation or in regards to their business source fo revenue
Additional information. No notability tag was added to the article to give the community the opportunity to establish notability of the subject. This article was written 13 minutes priori to the request for deletion !
Silicon graphic article organisation already is based on the existance of individuals article for its different product lines. That has been the case for two years and a half without any problem to my knowledge. merging information regarding this particular product line with the Silicon Graphics article would unbalance the article and compromise current quality of existing articles. -- Dwarfpower ( talk) 20:54, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Just browse Category:Products by company and take a pick.
None of the people i'v seen requesting the deletion of the article sofar are familiar with Computer graphics and computer hardware, at least none made any contribution in the field in their last 500 contribution. I don't try to diminish anyone's merit, but of course most of you haven't heard about it, it's not your field. I think most of you haven't heard of Étienne de La Boétie either, and that dioes not dimishes his merits or yours. This whole thing started on accusation of beeing blatantly advertising a product, now I don't even here about it anymore... -- Dwarfpower ( talk) 21:14, 25 September 2008 (UTC) reply