Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of home computers by video hardware


 * 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 no consensus to delete; defaulting to keep. There was a balance of views with no over-riding policy reasons to delete. TerriersFan 23:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

List of home computers by video hardware
Such a list is hard, if not impossible, to maintain. It seems to focus on older computers, but there may be a distinction between "home computers" and "personal computers" that I'm unaware of. Overall, categories would work better for the article, and lists like this aren't particularly notable. Exobyte 19:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - it is a well fleshed out article, though the name needs to change to better reflect the scope, such as '1980's Computers' (as an example, and I haven't checked that that is accurate). "List of home computers" implies it is going to keep track of every home computer from the first PC until, what?, we stop having computers in our homes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cander0000 (talk • contribs) 20 August 2007
 * Keep and clean up - Some of the introductory part isn't at all written in an encyclopedic style, and the work-to-be-done section should go to the talk page, but the information is definitely worth having an article about. And yes, there is a distinction: home computer is generally used to refer to machines of the era from 1977 to the very early 1990s, after the advent of non-kit computers for the home but before everything but IBM-compatible PCs and Macs died out.  That should probably be made clearer in the article, though, as this AfD shows that the term isn't understood by all readers to mean something other than a computer in your home. Pinball22 16:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete We should have an up to date article that discusses the relevant issues in prose. A table that goes into minute detail about defunct computer models - and is never going to be close to complete - just doesn't have any encyclopedic characteristics. Brandon97 21:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Can be browsed to pick up general industry trends, even if not complete. I would not object to renaming to clarify the scope, as suggested above. This is not undigested random info, which is properly deplored by WP:NOT. It's broken down by video hardware type, a thing which I've never actually seen done for PCs before. Information is chunked into bite-size groupings. Also there are lots of blue links here, so this can be used as a navigation aid for earlier computers, for those specially interested in graphics issues. The 123 notes seem well-written and appropriate. EdJohnston 22:56, 27 August 2007 (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.