Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethics of decompilation


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The result was delete. Non-admin closure. скоморохъ 14:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Ethics of decompilation

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Unreferenced and largely unquantifiable discussion in violation of WP:OR and WP:NOT a publisher of personal essays. Decompiler already covers the issue of legality. I don't think the nominated article adds anything useful to that discussion, so I vote Delete. Ham Pastrami (talk) 14:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I think the subject of the article could become an interesting Wikipedia article. However the article would need to be completely rewritten to keep it from being an essay without any reliable sources to back up a single one of the facts.  ~a (user • talk • contribs) 15:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. As Ham Pastrami says this is already covered in the main article and this is basically nothing more than an essay. It was probably created in good faith but it's just a bad idea so delete. EconomicsGuy (talk) 16:53, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Speaking as a Software Engineer, I have no reason to believe this article is anything more than original research in an essay format. The question of the ethics of decompilation may be considered interesting, but the concept is completely unable to establish nessisary notabiltiy for an article. -Verdatum (talk) 19:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:OR, no reliable source.  Otolemur crassicaudatus  (talk) 17:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


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