Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parc Place Systems


 * 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   delete. No assertion of notability. This could be an A7.  SilkTork   ✔Tea time  01:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Parc Place Systems

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Subject of the article appears to be a non-notable defunct software company. Although it was a spinoff of a notable company, notability is not inherent. This particular organization lacks significant coverage in reliable third party sources and fails to meet the notability guidelines for companies. Alpha_Quadrant   (talk)  21:46, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete There is just a timeline. Nothing else. Entire article lacks inline citations. Requires a lot of cleanup or just throw it out entirely. Fails WP:CORPDEPTH.---Michaelzeng7 (talk - contribs) 22:17, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:17, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:18, 2 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, B  music  ian  16:45, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

 ParcPlace was a notable company for a number of reasons; (1) SmallTalk is the direct precursor to Objective-C; (2) With Apple re-popularizing Objective-C via iOS there has been a resurgence of interest in SmallTalk. (3) The history of ParcPlace is interesting because, had it not been for Java ( another decedent of SmallTalk ) we'd probably all be programming in SmallTalk today ( as an alternative to C ). For the reasons, if someone is willing to do some more research on the company, I think it could make a useful and interesting article for the wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexHorovitz (talk • contribs) 20:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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