Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Id (Unix)


 * 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 delete. Noting I'll be happy to move this to draft space if a consensus develops to transwiki this somewhere. Lankiveil (speak to me) 11:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Id (Unix)

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This is a trivial UNIX command line utility. The article is currently a manual on how to use it, and I don't see how we can create a policy-compliant article on this. There really isn't anything we can say beyond what's already in List of Unix commands. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:12, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions.  Musa  Talk  03:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  Musa  Talk  03:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment Many of these Unix commands are all borderline WP:NOTMANUAL violations. I think it would be better to transwiki them en masse to Wikibooks in one complete book, than to delete them one-by-one. This should probably be discussed at WikiProject Computing first, though. —Ruud 09:31, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the answer is but I don't beleive that dealing with this one article at a time is the roght approach. These two templates give you an idea of the current scope of coverage of individual commands and utilities. See also List of DOS commands. ~Kvng (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete and mention and move elsewhere as the current article is currently questionable for the independent software notability. SwisterTwister   talk  08:04, 24 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment I generally agree with Kvng that we should find a general solution for this kind of article. But some commands are more notable, such as those that have become associated with a wider arena, for example, uucp lead to UUCPNET. Similarly, some not-so-obvious UNIX commands have proved useful enough that they have been imitated on many other operating systems. I think these better-known commands deserve an article. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:21, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't think anyone would want to delete the article on UUCP for exactly the reason you give. But we wouldn't want separate entries for uucp, uux and uucico. Q VVERTYVS (hm?) 18:43, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Nominator is right. Notability and NOTMANUAL are not being satisfied here. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:46, 25 February 2016 (UTC)


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