Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of software development kits


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The result was delete. Dakota 02:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

List_of_software_development_kits
What is the point of having this page? There's no realistic way to list every single SDK in existence, nor is there any point to doing so. How do you lay it out? By license? By company? By domain? How big must something be to qualify for the list (ie can my pet graphics engine be arbitrarily added to the list)? Even if all of those questions were satisfactorily answered, there would be no advantage to having such a page -- at the very least, it would be prohibitively large. As described in What Wikipedia Is Not, "excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia." I don't see any redeeming value to simply listing all the SDKs. The ones that are worth talking about (for example, the Open Dynamics Engine) can be given their own pages, and SDKs can be a category instead. Promit 02:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable listcruft. M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 (T 02:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorize. Having a category of notable SDKs might be useful, but not every single one.  ColourBurst 03:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - This list will quickly become unmanagable. Torinir ( Ding my phone  My support calls   E-Support Options  ) 03:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete : This will get COMPLETELY out of control in short order. Is there a catagory for this? THAT might be useful. --In ur base, killing ur dorfs 13:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This list is too indiscriminates, lacks sufficient annotation or added value, and will be unmaintainable. Perhaps categories would be better.-- danntm T C 18:13, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Worse than useless. Pavel Vozenilek 14:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. We've got Category:Widget toolkits and Category:Computer libraries. utcursch | talk 11:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)


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