Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Becky! (2nd nomination)


 * 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   keep. Jayjg (talk) 03:43, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Becky!
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Non-notable software product, a shareware email client. Searching for "Becky!" alone will drown in false positives, but when you add the name of the publisher (Rimarts) nothing turns up that resembles a reliable source as far as I can tell. Most relevant hits appear to be download pages in Japanese, and even there most of the hits seem to be conjunctions of the names Becky and Rimart.

Proposed deletion (not me! not me!) was recently contested, for reasons not related to the merits (If you think my sense of humor is bad....) Note that this has been discussed for deletion before, in April, 2005 at Articles for deletion/Becky! Result of the previous discussion was keep. Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.


 * Keep. It was kept the first time around on the basis of a couple of paragraphs of content. Nothing much seems to have changed. If it was notable before it will still be notable now. Szzuk (talk) 17:06, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Article has zero source for notability. Couldn't find any, though it's not easy with such a common name. The fact that it survived AfD in 2005 only shows that criteria for notability on Wikipedia weren't so well established then. --137.122.49.102 (talk) 18:03, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. Procedurally, it should not have been prodded after surviving an AfD (even in 2005). No opinion on notability yet. Pcap ping  18:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears this was a popular email client in East Asia due to support for CJKV and similar. Book blurb. Sohu review. Pcap ping  19:05, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. The Sohu article would appear to be a comparison of several email clients, including Becky!, Foxmail, Outlook Express, and THE BAT!.  - Smerdis of Tlön! (talk) 20:59, 14 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions.  -- Pcap  ping  19:06, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per citations located by Poht ce-am phtit. LotLE × talk  08:06, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Found more coverage: Head-to-head with The Bat! in Computerra. Turorial in a Japanese online mag owned by the same company as Mainichi Shimbun (has pretty high Alexa ranking in Japan). Pcap ping  09:45, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It was also included in two round-up reviews in German print magazines. Summaries here. Pcap ping  11:54, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Pcap doing the considerable work finding non-English sources.  Power.corrupts (talk) 16:12, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Looks to aline with the WP:GNG and WP:Reliable Sources in other countries. - FaceMash (talk) 13:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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