Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amiga software piracy


 * 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 of the debate was Merge/redirect Kotepho 06:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Amiga software piracy
Article is speculative prose; Wikipedia is not an essay repository. The software piracy debate exists on all computer platforms and is covered in its own article. Bumm13 18:08, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete Software Piracy already has it covered. No need for large random essays. -- Dark fred Talk to me 18:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. Grafikm_fr 18:50, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom  Funky Monkey    (talk)   19:12, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]]  nath a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W) 04:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - What's speculative about it? There's some good information in there which is specific to the Amiga. I only moved it out because Amiga was getting too large. - Richardcavell 09:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Chris has merged it into Amiga software piracy. How about redirecting Amiga software piracy to software piracy then? - Richardcavell 11:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge (done) then Delete make into a redirect to Amiga Software.


 * The article is neither speculative nor random. It gets the technical and social details right, and explains how the technical details mattered. It does not discuss the software piracy debate (whether, why and why not); instead it concentrates on the piracy process (why disk-based protection did not work on the Amiga, what Amiga publishers used instead). Note also that Software piracy redirects to Copyright infringement of software, which address the legal and ethical aspects of piracy quite well, but says nothing whatsoever about the technical aspects. Can I suggest that a little more effort in reading the articles under discussion might avoid future embarrassment?
 * Nevertheless, being somewhat of a mergist, I have WP:BOLDly merged the content of the article into Amiga software. Not being an admin, I'll let someone else delete it.
 * Cheers, CWC (talk) 10:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * A later thought: Amiga software piracy should redirect to Amiga software, since that's where the content now is. CWC (talk) 11:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've just edited the article into a redirect to Amiga software, but left the AfD tag there. Are we finished here? CWC (talk) 17:40, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.