Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ambisonic software


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 04:08, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

List of Ambisonic software

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This is nothing more than list cruft and a directory. More importantly, it's a WP:LINKFARM without a single existing article. Praxidicae (talk) 13:50, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. WP:NOTDIR WP:NOTLINKFARM WP:NOTCATALOGUE. Ajf773 (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello Praxidicae, thank you for the notification about this AfD discussion. If it is now generally accepted Wikipedia policy to cut down on the number of "List of..." articles, then I won't argue for keeping it. If that is not the case however, I would argue that it does no harm and is actually quite useful for people doing research on Ambisonics, this page's parent article, and its several related pages. That also refutes your argument that there is "no single existing article". As to your allegation of a "link farm": it is certainly not intended as such, but rather to complement said series of articles. I note in the revision history that it is quite healthy in the sense that multiple Wikipedians have contributed to this page in a constructive fashion since I created the original version, and there has been no spamming. I also note that you have personally been in involved in an edit war on this page, which seems to have prompted you to nominate the article for deletion.
 * Furthermore, not every addition of a research project by an involved author is necessarily bad. With about a decade of experience in the field, I'm confident to say that the additions you objected to are on-topic, relevant and shared in the spirit of openness rather than for self-promotion.
 * Since the vast majority of links on this page are to open-source software, I would argue that they constitute valuable "further reading" material. I'd be open to discuss whether commercial software should be listed here. I agree it would be inappropriate in most cases, the reason it was done here is that software in this field used to be very scarce, and if anyone objects, let's discuss removing that section. Keep Nettings (talk) 20:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * This, as pointed out above, is not a website to list things that exist, nor is it a catalogue. A bunch of links provide no value to readers and violate pretty much every policy and guideline. Praxidicae (talk) 20:18, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * As perhaps the unwitting instigator of Praxidicae's motion to seek deletion of this page, I am of course in no real position to make arguments for or against it.
 * However, for what it's worth, I am of the same opinion as Nettings, and I hope the admins lend more weight to his arguments, rather than to those made by people not involved in this field. Keep — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leomccormack (talk • contribs) 08:50, 17 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment Lists like this may be useful, but certainly not as a Wikipedia article (so many inline external links, no real encyclopedic content, horrible!). Maybe hosting this info somewhere else would be better idea than trying to save an unsalvageable article. Note copy of this article exists also in user space of the article creator. Pavlor (talk) 09:16, 17 June 2019 (UTC)


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