Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic SysRq key


 * 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. The article may be merged throught the usual means by editors discretion. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 18:26, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Magic SysRq key

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This article on keyboard shortcuts in the Linux kernel consists almost entirely of howto instructions. WP:NOTHOWTO is the relevant policy here -- I don't think we could be left with more than a stub once we removed them. If it's not deleted, it should probably be merged somewhere. Vquex (talk) 22:39, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge the non-"how-to" stuff into System request and leave as a redirect. Somno (talk) 01:36, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Somno. It would be nice to see System request expanded. For example, sparc machines have/had a "stop" key that could be used to halt execution and break into the OpenBoot PROM. Andareed (talk) 01:57, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. IMHO the article contains very little HOWTO-ish material and/or instructions (can Vquex perhaps clarify his view more?). It documents the functionality and how people use it, and I see nothing wrong with that. For example, the raising-elephants-mnemonic stuff can be seen as HOWTO, but you might just as well say it shows how the various commands cooperate and depend on each other. JöG (talk) 20:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I can't see how one would explain these shortcuts without some explanation of how to use them. It seems encyclopedic to me.  JeremyStein (talk) 14:38, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: Not notable (no reliable sources &mdash; it's only a developer feature of the Linux kernel which is not activated on end-user kernels), un-encyclopedic style ("do this, then do that" etc). IMO merge with system request wouldn't work; the only thing that's worth noting is the fact that such a feature exists; everything else is excessive detail. -- intgr [talk] 12:48, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep While it needs some additonal historical information, perhaps who/where/when it was added to the kernel, I can't see why this is any more or less a HowTo than Control-Alt-Delete. And for the record it is activated in user kernels, Debian and Ubuntu in particular.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhansonxi (talk • contribs) 21:46, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I think it could use a bit of rewriting to avoid the 'howto'-ish style, but I think that this is a very valid article and it should be kept. 70.55.214.11 (talk) 02:25, 5 August 2008 (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.