Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SONAR (Symantec)


 * 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. Discussion to merge should take place at the article's talk page. – Juliancolton  | Talk 00:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

SONAR (Symantec)

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Sufficiently explained in related articles. To minor of a component in Norton AntiVirus to be granted its own article. TechOutsider (talk) 01:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC)TechOutsider


 * Comment fixed nomination --- needed afd2. cab (talk) 01:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  cab (talk) 01:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge SF007 (talk) 02:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep It is used in 3 different pieces of software (not just Norton Antivirus) so merging it to any single one of them muddles the water by making the reader believe that is the only place it's used. A better merge target would be Symantec, but I don't see this work there just yet without a technology section in there. - Mgm|(talk) 12:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge with Symantec. Not sufficiently notable on its own. -- Scjessey (talk) 17:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are two independent articles that are cited and appear to be non-trivial, establishing notability.  It would be awkward in the Symantec article & I agree that merging it to an article on a single product seems somewhat inadequate.  TechOutsider's most novel contribution to the article (the drawbacks section) should be better cited.  I don't think anyone has shown that automation leads to more false positives.  Indeed, I remember email spam/ham and/or phishing studies that suggested that given average users choices about such things didn't always lead to spectacular results. --Karnesky (talk) 00:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Per WP:N, "Wikipedia is not a news source: it takes more than just a short burst of news reports about a single event or topic to constitute evidence of sufficient notability." This article is a stub/start class and will stay that way; Symantec acquired a firm, PC Tools, which develops and distributes 'ThreatExpert', similar to SONAR. TechOutsider (talk) 01:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)TechOutsider


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