Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fail2ban


 * 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. W.marsh 14:12, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Fail2ban

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prod tag was in place for six months, notability tag for six months before that. This is a non-notable piece of software and nobody has ever stepped up to establish why it deserves an article or bring the stub up to even basic copyediting standards. Chris Cunningham 08:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Locobot (talk) 02:36, 20 May 2009 (UTC) This is a Secret account 02:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Actually the article had been deleted because of the PROD and I just restored it yesterday upon request. The diffs are these  Unfortunately my comment in the edit history does not make that very clear. The request mentions one source (in German), but it is indeed unclear whether there is sufficient independent coverage. --Tikiwont 08:35, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep I did some googling and the German article mentioned likely is this review from August in a magazine called "PC Professionell" (google translation). There's also some other articles about it in google (e.g.   ). So, it seems to be at least somewhat notable to me. -Allefant 11:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep: Somewhat notable, but does need some sourcing in the article. - Rjd0060 04:49, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep: Well, I am the one who initiated this article after I saw alternative tools listed within wikipedia (they are referenced from Fail2Ban page). At the moment, Fail2ban seems to be the only tool of such kind which is still being developed and maintained. How "noticable" fail2ban is? as noted above -- googling brings A LOT of references and the stories of success. The main author of Fail2ban from time to time treats me with the kind emails from the users expressing their gratitude (unfortunately I can't cite or reference those from the article). Nevertheless I added few more references to the Internet-published articles highlighting Fail2Ban, also I added a couple of citations. I hope it would be sufficient to keep the article within wikipedia and remove the "deletion" banner. Thanks everyone in advance! Yarikoptic 05:39, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


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