Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/API Management


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:31, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

API Management

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There are commercial entitites/vendors related references in this article that pose a question to the merits of it being a definitive impartial article at all. API management as a discipline goes back decades as it has been practiced. The notion of an API (Application Programming Interface) and management (the ability to manage who, what, when, how, why, and finally how often) are separate disciplines in their own right, and have their own articles. API management in the light of REST based applications or service invocations etcetera are a more narrowly focused notion of APIs. It discredits the various other methods of APIs and management that are available at large today - space based computing, asynchronous queuing, fire and forget broadcasting, in-memory /shared-memory calls etc.. lex lapax (talk) 09:45, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete or Redirect to IT Governance: The claims in this article are simply not true. API management is not a new concept, it's just IT Governance and SOA Governance following marketing hype into a new terminology phase (we seem to be using API now where things were called Web Services or RESTful Services before). -- BenTels (talk) 17:04, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 17:43, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 17:44, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NEO, WP:NOT and WP:PROMOTION: the article's subject is another buzzword that was attached to several preexisting aspects in order to make marketing the corresponding solutions easier. Though article is quite long, it barely passes WP:CSD criterion in section "Common tasks and required functionality", which makes apparently evident that the topic boils down to several aspects of web application development, with some of them being already in place before "Web 2.0" hype. Also note, that the article is quite wordy, but doesn't share much info; if rewritten in encyclopedic tone, it would be condensed to a single short paragraph. That said, the purpose of this article seems to be in describing the buzzword as having some real world significance (in fact it tries to show much more significance then there is) and consequently promote several companies (listed and linked at the bottom) as doing an important business. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 12:58, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOT and WP:PROMOTION.  JoeGazz84  ♦ 19:58, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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