Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of FTP server return codes


 * 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   keep. Consensus not to delete; any merger or transwiki can be discussed on the article talk page.  Sandstein  07:04, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

List of FTP server return codes

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Move This page is rather a HowTo than an encyclopedic content. It should be moved to Wikibooks as it is written here and should be added to the current FTP tutorial. Ftiercel (talk) 15:02, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep: I see nothing how-toish about it. --Carnildo (talk) 23:18, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I believe WP:NOTGUIDE applies here.  Them From  Space  23:43, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to File Transfer Protocol; information here is encyclopaedic, not a howto.  The WP:NOTGUIDE argument is better, but still weak in my opinion. If the article can't be kept it should be merged to the main FTP article, but I think it would be valid to leave it as a separate article and link it from FTP.Vulcan&#39;s Forge (talk) 04:29, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep These type of articles are actually quite popular and these are much more of a summary than a how-to. I'd like to see this one expanded so that we end up with something more like what we've done with List of HTTP status codes. We now have cite IETF to help cite RFCs and other IETF documents as well. One of our most popular pages is HTTP 404 (currently averaging ~2.8 million page views per day, see WikiProject Computing/Popular pages). --Tothwolf (talk) 05:41, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Popularity is not the problem. It's not a deletion but a migration. People read the article where it is placed, even it is at the right place or not. Ftiercel (talk) 08:35, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You are obviously free to export and merge content into Wikibooks if you'd like, but there is nothing wrong with having such articles on Wikipedia and WP:NOTGUIDE does not apply here. As for popularity, List of FTP commands has been averaging about 250-300 hits per day and List of FTP server return codes has been averaging about 100 hits per day,  so clearly these articles serve a purpose to the community. List of FTP commands would also be much more useful if it were restructured more like List of Internet Relay Chat commands, which currently summarises and references half a dozen RFCs. We could really use such an article for SMTP too. --Tothwolf (talk) 20:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge Acceptable spin-out article. --Cyber cobra (talk) 22:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge Wikipedia is an excellent source of information and more and more we're becoming an authoritative encyclopedia. And as such I believe we have to keep ALL the knowledge available. --PJonDevelopment (talk) 15:50, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge - seems like a reasonable fork.  Cocytus   [»talk«]  23:44, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is useful information, to be sure, something I would expect to find in, oh, say... a manual.  Alas, WP:NOTMANUAL (Wikipedia is not a manual) nor should it be one.  I'm not sure what the best WikiMedia alternative would be, WikiSource perhaps?  Or WikiBooks?  I find it strange that so many people find this to be reasonable information for an encyclopedia to cover, and yes, I realize, once again, that my viewpoint is in the minority.  JBsupreme (talk) 07:40, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Second choice: Transwiki to Wikibooks, that appears to be the most sensible option. JBsupreme (talk) 07:42, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge - and expand. There is nothing resembling a manual or a how-to; it is perfectly sensible information to be covered. -- Cycl o pia talk  15:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Encyclopedic content that is probably best handled in a spin out article rather than in FTP. Yilloslime T C  03:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.