Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robot certificate authority


 * 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. T. Canens (talk) 23:25, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Robot certificate authority

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Entire article is original research; there is no term "Robot certificate authority" Anton.bersh (talk) 03:49, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

NOTE: If Robot certificate authority is deleted, Robot CA should also be deleted, because it is just a redirect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anton.bersh (talk • contribs) 04:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Based on some searching, the article was written by James Howard[1] going by the name Howardjp in 2005, composed entirely of original research (no sources). I believe that was an edit in good faith, yet Wikipedia should not host unverifiable content. Since then there were very few edits which did not update article in any major way and did not add sources. Furthermore, the focus of the article is not clear and there is no term "robot CA", since most CAs heavily rely on rely on automation and most certificates are Domain-validated and would fall under this article's definition of "robot CA". Please note that terms Domain-validated certificate, Extended Validation Certificate were introduced about the same time or even after 2005, when this article was created; likely their introduction and adoption removed the need for term "robot CA".

Original source of the article by James Howard is lost to time (because is no longer accurate or relevant), but can be seen in archives[2]. Wikipedia article almost entirely consists of paragraphs copied from these posts.

[1] Based on the article talk page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Robot_certificate_authority [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20051223061258/http://jameshoward.us/Robot_Certificate_Authority — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anton.bersh (talk • contribs) 04:22, 30 April 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. I don't think this is a hoax per se (if it were it'd be the longest-running hoax in WP history) but no other sources exist. – John M Wolfson (talk &#124; contribs) 01:45, 8 May 2019 (UTC)


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