Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jolt Awards


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The result was redirect to Dr. Dobb's Journal. (non-admin closure)  Ya  sh  !   14:44, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Jolt Awards

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I cannot find any independent sources covering this award in any depth. There are many press releases and passing mentions from the award's winners, but very little about the award itself, and very little from independent sources. If someone can find good sources, I will withdraw my nomination, of course.

It looks like the awards were given out incrementally over each year, so this could be described as a regular column in Dr. Dobb's Journal, rather than a conventional award. The magazine's article says that the website still gives the award even though the magazine is defunct, but that's unsourced. It seems like this is better summarized at the magazine's article with new sources, but the extensive list of past winners doesn't would not belong there, so this doesn't seem like a good merge candidate. Grayfell (talk) 23:44, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete I have had a similarly difficult time finding any reliable secondary coverage for this award. It's more of a novelty and attempt at promotion for the product. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:33, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect to Dr. Dobb's Journal. Some of the lead could probably be merged there, but certainly not the entire list of awards.  I don't see independent coverage of this, but it's possible someone will search for it, as this was a popular magazine. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:44, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect' to Dr. Dobb's Journal as mentioned, because this may be best connected to that with no actual solid signs of an independently notable article of its own. SwisterTwister   talk  08:05, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 13:10, 25 February 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:13, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Dr. Dobb's Journal. Back in the day, these awards were a big deal because Dr. Dobb's was a big deal. But I haven't found independent in-depth sources for these awards specifically. Nonetheless, these awards are verifiable and this is a plausible search term, so a redirect is warranted. I'd be fine with just the lead being merged in, too. --Mark viking (talk) 19:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


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