Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GPLTrans (2nd nomination)

GPLTrans was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. 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 to re-delete.

I proposed this one for deletion in May (archived debate here) and it was deleted by four votes to none (including my nomination). It appears to have been recreated in September.

This is a one-man project which currently does nothing useful and shows no sign of ever doing so. It's been in development since 1999; at its peak I managed to get it to translate the English "a horse walks into a bar" into the French "une horse walks into une bar" (and French was one of the better-supported languages).

The website has been resurrected. It now says:


 * ... it died after years of neglect and bad code. Instead of simply dying though, it has chosen to try life again. In order to do that, it will need to be remade from scratch. Before that can happen, a team needs to be put into place that can provide the support it so desperately needs.


 * In the example of other successful projects, I propose a governing system that will allow freedom of development but provide the structure necessary to prevent chaos. It is currently in draft form here.


 * But a governing document is not enough. I would like people to help form the first Governing Council. To that effect, I would like people to step up and volunteer to assume one of the commission roles specified in the Governing Document. Once this is done, and a final copy of the Governing Document is made, we can begin laying down the other frameworks necessary to bring it back online.

So it seems that no code will be written until the administrative system is in place, and I doubt that anyone will volunteer for the envisioned "governing structure" (consisting of four commissions, a governing council, and three-monthly elections) until there's a project there for them to govern!

Anyhow, I thought that perhaps some development had taken place which might render the project more notable, so I downloaded and installed the latest version of the code. It's dated 2002, and as it stands, it is capable of translating the word "hello" from English to Pig Latin, and nothing else. The article's assertion that it is "capable of translating between eight languages" is, thus, something of an exaggeration.

If this project ever attains its lofty goals, it might merit an article. At present, it's about as non-notable as they come, and I see little hope of this changing. Pnot 04:50, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry, forgot to add: 3000-ish Google hits, but they all appear to be Wikipedia mirrors, Sourceforge pages, or directories of software packages. Pnot 04:56, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * This can be speedy deleted are a recreation of a deleted page. - SimonP 05:17, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thought it best to VfD just in case: the project website has reappeared since the previous deletion so it might be thought that something had changed. Still, I wouldn't oppose a speedy if it's deemed legitimate. Pnot 05:46, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Speedy deleted: Recreation of deleted articles is one of the things that drives me nuts.  I looked through the deleted history, as well, and this version is actually less full and notable than the previous one.  Geogre 06:16, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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