Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Patching System


 * 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   merge to ROM hacking. PhilKnight (talk) 19:44, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

International Patching System

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This article is not worthy of inclusion in the Wikimedia project. Its topic is not notable. There are no citations for this topic in any publication, and no citations in this article. Its only external links appear to link to small-time software made to support this format, and a few pages which list compatible utilities. The mere presence of multiple utilities to work with one file type does not establish notability. Age does not establish notability either. Linked documents mention this format as early as 1994, but despite a certain 15 years of existence, no publication has ever covered this format. While it may have relevance to the Internet subculture which created and uses this format, it is not strong enough to demand a unique article. The state of the article after years of Wikipedia alone tells volumes about how relevant this format is. I propose this article be deleted and its content abridged and added as a paragraph to the ROM Hacking article. It should also be added to the Alphabetical list of file extensions. The muramasa (talk) 15:15, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  21:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge and Redirect page to ROM Hacking per the well argued nomination. It lacks context and content as a stand alone article but works very well within the context of ROM Hacking. Faradayplank (talk) 21:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


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