Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lisp2dot (2nd nomination)


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The result was merge. I will redirect to Graphviz for now. W.marsh 20:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Lisp2dot (2nd nomination)

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Was going to propose for deletion, but it has already been up for deletion once. Quite non-notable, and the 3 delete !voters on the former seems to agree. The 5 keepers !vote keep per first keeper Tony Sidaway's "Nice little tool." argument. See former AfD for more arguing. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 13:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, while only a guideline, not sure how this 'nice little tool' (note WP:ILIKEIT) meets WP:SOFTWARE or is notable in any sense. Besides the source code, where are any WP:RS for verifiability?  The Rambling Man 13:20, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into S-expression. This is probably notable within a tiny domain, but it isnt universally notable, and the article wont grow much beyond its current size.  Graphviz already contains a brief snippets about this tool, and that is all that the article could reasonably do, as this tool only creates DOT language files that can be used by Graphviz -- there is no direct relationship.  Graphviz is extremely commonly used, so that article will eventually grow and list2dot would eventually become insignificant and more than likely eventually removed.  OTOH, the S-expression is lacking in examples and even states that it hasnt been adopted widely. A long-winded explaination of this tool on that article would not be in danger of being dropped in favour of a better example.  Unless the author himself comes here and tells us that this high ranking wikipedia article name is annoying him, I would prefer to keep a redirect from "lisp2dot" to the article where this info is moved to, as people will have bookmarks to this article as it has existed for 18 months. John Vandenberg 21:47, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Graphviz or DOT language. Merging this to S-expressions would make little sense in my opinion - kind of merging "William Shakespeare" to "English language", since the two are supposedly related. Anyway, there's no reason to keep this as a separate article; few bits and pieces that are part of the "unseen infrastructure" deserve such article, and are best discussed in some other article instead. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 11:16, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


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