Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group

 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 KEEP. Golbez 00:35, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group
Unix user group, nothing encyclopedic here, delete --nixie 13:31, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you advocate deletion of all LUGs? Many are mentioned in Wikipedia but this is the only one flagged for deletion that I could find Robertbrockway 05:33, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Too minor to warrant inclusion. Delete. Jasonglchu 15:44, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This user group has hosted the Aussie ISP mailing list archives for many years now. No vote. -- Longhair | Talk 17:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ambi 21:10, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable in its field of fostering Unix/Linux O/S (wow! since 1995). As notable as other entries in Category:Linux User Groups.--Takver 03:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll change to a weak keep, provided that someone cleans it up and adds information to the page to verify notability. jglc | t | c 16:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete pending Weak Keep after addition of verifiable info. establishing notability of HUMBUG. Dystopos 18:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)/Dystopos 04:33, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Their site. jglc | t | c 18:54, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Their history, according to the link provided:  The first HUMBUG meeting was held on Friday the 8th of September, 1995. This was the first and only meeting held on a Friday night. Popular demand at this meeting decided that all future meetings would start at 3pm on Saturdays. We also had meetings monthly at first. We started having fortnightly meetings with the 5th meeting which was held on Saturday, 27th of January, 1996.  - Does not establish notability. Dystopos 20:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I have added information to the article, including: Humbug is one of the earliest Linux user groups in Australia; and HUMBUG hosted the third national Linux and Open Source conference in 2002. Googling on their full title gives 839 hits. The fact that they formed in 1995 for home Unix (and unix like) users when Linux was still largely unheard of is significant and makes them historically important. If we delete this entry, we might as well put up for VfD most of Category:Linux User Groups. Linux User Groups, like HUMBUG are important entries because they are the grassroots popularisers of a major operating system. We become less encyclopeadic if such groups are not included. --Takver 02:24, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep This is the only LUG I could find flagged for deletion, so in this sense HUMBUG is being specially dealt with. It is longer running than most.  Disclaimer: I started HUMBUG so I have an inherent bias. Robertbrockway 05:32, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- notable long serving user group. - Longhair | Talk 16:13, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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