Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of executable file formats


 * 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   no consensus. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  00:03, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Comparison of executable file formats

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Could be replaced with a single sentence in the PE article Mblumber (talk) 23:33, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge Even then a sentence would do, I don't think the table is needed.--Wadeperson (talk) 00:13, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete does not live up to its title. Where's the CP/M COM format? The DOS EXE format? The Windows CLI format? The Unix a.out format? It's just a trivial table of three features found in PE and not in the two types used for comparison. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 08:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Please read and learn our Editing policy and Deletion policy. We don't delete articles because they haven't sprung forth, fully grown, from the head of Zeus.  We only delete stubs if there is no potential for expansion.  You've just argued that there is a lot of potential for expansion, which is a strong argument for keeping according to Wikipedia policy, no matter what boldfaced word it happens to be prefixed by. Uncle G (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice to recreation at a later point. We should have an article on this subject, I think, but the current one is a long way from NPOV: it just lists three advantages of PE and shows that the more popular Unix formats don't support them.  If it weren't so biased, I'd say keep it as a reasonable stub. JulesH (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * So why haven't you edited it to make it into a reasonable stub? You've written more words here than would probably be needed to actually fix the article to address your concern.  Non-neutrality isn't a deletion criterion, per Deletion policy. Uncle G (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Because I don't have the sources to fix it. Neutrality could only be fixed by adding more details so that the features aren't skewed, which is quite a big job for somebody who doesn't already know these details by heart. JulesH (talk) 18:23, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note that the article did not contain an {{subst:afd1}} notice until just now, and was only nominated for Proposed Deletion yesterday (by 76.66.198.171, ironically). So editors with an interest may not have been aware of this discussion. Uncle G (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: I created the article. Yeah, it is short, because it is a stub. I intended it to be NPOV. I also intended it to be bigger, with more formats and features, but the article is just a stub, I would hope it get extended. Instead of people claim it is NPOV, or say its short, I would like people to expand it, and improve it. -- Frap (talk) 23:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: I found this article, because I was looking for a comparison of different executable formats. Although the information is not useful enough yet I would like to have a more expanded version of it. I doubt de relevance of the 'Icon' column. --Stefankroon (talk) 12:35, 5 January 2009 (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.