Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FTOSX

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Pending deletion. Joyous 03:24, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

FTOSX
Non-notable operating system by deleted Future Technologies (see Votes for deletion/Future Technologies).

Admittedly googling for FTOSX gets 57000 hits. But if you discount stuff by Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando (the founder of Future Technologies), all that's left is FTP directory trees. (Note that http://www.rpmparadaise.org belongs to Dr. Orlando.) I thought this was an indicative example.

Googling for FTOSX -FTP -wikipedia gets 20000 hits. Among these, the best I could find was, which refers in passing to FTOSX as a "dominant Linux distribution".


 * Delete. If this were notable, there would be loads of web sites by people other than Orlando talking about it.  dbenbenn | talk 23:55, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep with that many Google hits, it seems to be widespread, even if much (all?) of the promotion is the result of one person. I'd keep it for now and revisit the issue in a few years to see whether it's stood the test of time. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  14:52, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, because FTOSX certainly isn't "dominant" among Linux distributions, and after watching the field for years, I've never seen reason to believe that it's even "notable" in its area, let alone influential among society in general. 205.247.102.130 18:52, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Above vote was mine, not logged in. Barno 21:58, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but with reservations. Article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 07:53, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Dbenbenn. Radiant! 11:07, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as ad. Weak keep only if verifiable third-party evidence that anyone gives two hoots can be added - David Gerard 00:37, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notability not established.  ElBenevolente 04:49, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of notability, likely self-promotion. RadicalSubversiv E 09:34, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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