Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drum machine programming


 * This article has no encyclopedic value. It's list of musical tables that don't make any sense to the average reader wanting to learn about drum machine programming. Guanaco 00:06, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Not sure what to do with this one. The tablatures may be informative to some, and are not obvious nonsense.  Move to Wikisource?  Merge with drum machine? I listed this on Cleanup.  Smerdis of Tlön 00:34, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - I have never programmed a drum machine, but I understand the tables. However I agree that much more explanation is needed (particularly regarding the time periods along the top of each table). mydogategodshat 06:00, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree.--Ryan524 08:55, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research. Transwiki to wikibooks where it could become the basis for a drum machine textbook. Gentgeen 06:18, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * To call a description of how a drum machine is programmed "original research" is quite incredible! mydogategodshat
 * If it's not original, where are the refrences to the sources? If the content or the patterns are coppied from another source, are they released under the GFDL by the copyright holder?  If they are properly released under the GFDL, where is the credit to the author required by the GFDL?  If the article (and the musical scores it contains) is original, it's not appropiate to the 'pedia.  If it's copied, it's either a copyright violation, or impropely attributed under the GFDL.  Gentgeen 09:31, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * No good as a stand-alone page. Merge with Drum machine and delete or, more likely, move to wikibooks. Exploding Boy 06:48, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Anyone dropping cash on a drum machine will either already know what's here or will prefer to use the patterns the drum machine came with, which will be way beyond what's here. So it's not practical as a how-to, and it's certainly not encyclopedic. &mdash; mendel &#9742; 16:07, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Why do you assume that the only people reading this article will be ones that are "dropping cash on a drum machine"? mydogategodshat
 * I haven't assumed a thing -- "and it's certainly not encyclopedic" does not refer to people who own drum machines. If someone wants to maintain a repository of drum machine patterns, all power to them, but Wikipedia is not a free wiki host. People who do not own drum machines but want to see drum machine patterns anyhow can go to that repository which is not on Wikipedia.  &mdash; mendel &#9742; 16:34, Apr 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete.Jorge Stolfi 00:26, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. This data might be appropriate as part of a how-to guide, but it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Cribcage 22:19, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. It reads like some of the directions for a very cheap programmable drum machine, written by someone with poor English and similar knowledge of Western music. As I pointed out on cleanup, the rock rhythm isn't even accurate (I'll be more specific: The bass drum and hihat are both wrong, there are several possible patterns for both but the ones given aren't any of them). Andrewa 09:58, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)