Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SETVER (DOS command)


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The result was redirect to List of DOS commands. Barkeep49 (talk) 01:54, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

SETVER (DOS command)

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Article is WP:WWIN - WP:NOTEVERYTHING, WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Wikipedia is not a manual of DOS commands.  // Timothy ::  talk  08:00, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.   // Timothy ::  talk  08:00, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Author info (WP:OR?): Maybe it's WP:SYNTH, but when EXE2BIN was pushed off the standard DOS disk in 3.3 (i.e. pay extra for a "goodies"/2nd disk), PC Magazine's (sarcastic) "Thank you, IBM" item showed how to patch the 3.2 version, to run on 3.2 or later. This may have been part of the History of Software for why "SETVER" was introduced: to minimize breakage and recognize customer pushback. Years later, when the US Airforce didn't agree with Microsoft's schedule for getting off Windows XP, the end-of-support date was extended. SETVER has a place in software history. (see Backward compatible) Pi314m (talk) 22:17, 21 August 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment from nom: I think this is a case where Notability (software) should be amended to account for command line tools. Under the current essay, the same tool distributed under an open source Linux would be notable, because of the looser source standard, but if it was distributed commercially under DOS or Unix it would not be notable, under the stricter standard.  // Timothy ::  talk  23:07, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Agreed, Wikipedia is not a DOS manual. DEL Whiteguru (talk) 12:22, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Reply to Comment re Notability (software): there is another article, Software notability, and it lists "introduced an important technical innovation" and mentions "installed as part of the operating system on newly built systems." I agree that Wikipedia is not a DOS (or Windows: it's part of Windows 10) manual, but SETVER was an innovation. Pi314m (talk) 05:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   08:09, 29 August 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge. First of all, this should not have been created under this title since SETVER already existed as a redirect to List of DOS commands. As it appears there no no consensus that this command is notable, content should be merged into the list where there is already a couple of sentences. MB 01:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   16:53, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 16:59, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect/merge to List of DOS commands. Wikipedia is not an MS-DOS manual. This is not a keep vote. Stifle (talk) 09:46, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The article topic is not suitable for a Wikipedia page. Charmk (talk) 04:07, 17 September 2020 (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.