Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GRML

GRML
GRML 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 keep.

Anon user creating pages to advertise his/her products. AlistairMcMillan 21:26, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, but GRML itself gets >70,000 Google hits. I have removed the commercial link and marked it as a stub, which I think is worthwhile keeping. [[User:GeorgeStepanek|GeorgeStepanek\talk ]] 22:19, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 22:28, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, whatever the motivation of the creator of the page, the topic is notable. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:03, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep it. &mdash;[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 09:06, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. The google test on ' "General Reuse Markup Language" ' yield 410 hits! By comparison test on ' "Standard Generalized Markup Language" ' get > 100K hits !
 * Keep, needs expansion is all. Wyss 11:06, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Does seem marginally notable, no vote for the time being. --fvw *  19:53, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)
 * Keep (?) - some perhaps slightly better Google searches are GRML markup (~4710 hits) and GRML "markup language" (~3610 hits). Both of these are pretty likely to refer to this meaning of "GRML", but don't require the author to spell it out (and spell it right!); interestingly, a couple refer to it as "Gordon Rhodes Markup Language". Meanwhile, I'm creating a redirect at General Reuse Markup Language, as the acronym seems the more commonly used form. - IMSoP 00:20, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually, the more I read, the less I'm sure - it all seems to be either written by, or in [not often positive ] response to, the format's creator. Can anyone find anything created by anyone other than Mr. Rhodes that uses this? Or, perhaps, there are enough critiques of it that we could have an article discussing them? He certainly seems to have got himself about a bit... - IMSoP 00:30, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * GRML is also a bootable Linux distro CD that's based on Debian. A better search would be for GRML browser, which gets 34,000 hits. About 2/3 of these are for the Tree MDI browser. [[User:GeorgeStepanek|GeorgeStepanek\talk ]] 02:37, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * How often would a mention of a Linux distro happen to also mention "markup language", though? I stand by that as a fairly good guess that they're all the same thing (or, at least, they're about meanings of GRML where the ML is "markup language", there may be more than one...). - IMSoP 19:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * On Google groups, "GRML" seems to be used overwhelmingly, unrelatedly, in German. Semi-limited to English, the search finds rather little. Keep, still. Samaritan 01:52, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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