Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Screens of death


 * 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. Procedural. The consensus seems to be to convert the page to a disambiguation page. NW ( Talk ) 01:30, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Screens of death

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Screens of death is quite a large page, so I'll try to explain my reasoning for nominating this for deletion carefully:


 * Firstly, while the page has a few citations, the majority of the text is uncited. Furthermore, some of the sections of the page appear to be original research (for example, where was a Linux kernel panic ever described as a "black screen of death?").  The page has had the cleanup and refimprove tags attached since February 2008.
 * The parts of the page that I personally think are notable are already covered in separate articles: Red Screen of Death, Blue Screen of Death, Xbox 360 Technical Problems, White Screen of Death, Kernel panic and Guru Meditation, for example. The only really notable thing I can see that probably ought to be split off into a separate article is the Sad Mac.
 * The article itself is an indiscriminate collection of information about many different operating systems, computers, games consoles and electronic devices, poorly organised by the background color of the "screen of death" (a decision that I'm certainly not sure makes a lot of sense). It's not even clear from the article what constitutes a "screen of death" - surely the Xbox red ring of death doesn't count as such?

In conclusion, I believe this article is an incoherent list of uncited facts that are of dubious notability, and duplicates the contents of other articles in the cases where notability does exist. fraggle (talk) 15:57, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems like it should be made into a disambiguation page (possibly at Screen of death instead). Powers T 16:02, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * DAB per LtPowers. --Chris (talk) 16:41, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions.  -- – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.  -- – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Convert to dab per above, split off the various "screens" of death accordingly. The Sad Mac, BSoD, Xbox red ring of doom, etc. can be split off into their own articles. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dab @ Screen of death per above, and move entries without their own articles to List of screens of death. --Cyber cobra (talk) 22:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * DAB to Screen of Death as stated. Basically, agreed with the above. --12.163.111.1 (talk) 01:23, 21 August 2009 (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.