Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition


 * 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. (non-admin closure) Icewedge (talk) 05:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

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Not every software release is significant or notable, even if the company releasing the software is. This seems to me to fail because it fails WP:NOT, so I am nominating it, supporting its deletion, and delivering it here for a consensus either way. The release appears to be well documents in Microsoft Office in any case. This is not about loving or hating Microsoft. This is about the article being genuinely suitable to be here Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:20, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict), if it's already well-documented, we can redirect and not waste our time discussing a deletion. - Mgm|(talk) 23:41, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep following addition of sources - Mgm|(talk) 09:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 01:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep It has more information than the main article, and appears to be broken out in WP:SS just fine. Jclemens (talk) 01:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I was able to find several references, so I added them to the article. The software is significant because it introduced some features before they were available on Microsoft Office for Windows, and because it made the Macintosh more attractive to people who needed an office suite. The current crop of references prove notability, I think. -- Eastmain 03:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * keep. In addition to reasons given by Raven1977, Jclemens and Eastmain, the introduction of Internet Explorer v 4 for Mac was notable as the Mac version of IE, while it lasted, was known for better implementation of web standards, especially CSS, than the Win version. BTW re Eastmain's point that "it made the Macintosh more attractive to people who needed an office suite", the article needs to examine portability of files between the Mac and Win versions. --Philcha (talk) 11:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * keep signifiance factor jumps in here... widely used, notable, important... worthwhile.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


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