Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shell curses


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 23:54, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Shell curses

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Unable to verify notability of subject. Article has WP:NPOV issues and was created by software author (WP:COI) and problematic editor User:Dfrench (who is Dana French per OTRS). Apparently recreated after previous deletion successful prod. Listed on review of contributions following ANI incident and COIN incident. -- samj in out 18:17, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The previous deletion was a Proposed Deletion, which re-creation effectively contests. Twp's rationale was that the article was orphaned, written by the subject's own creator, and not an interesting subject.  Since none of those are part of Deletion policy, it's probably best if we don't use the prior deletion as a factor in discussion here.  &#9786; Uncle G (talk) 19:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete apparently exists to prop up the Dana L. French article, presently also at AfD and heading for a snowball delete. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  21:38, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * redirect this is just curses (programming library) by another name William M. Connolley (talk) 21:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * actually it's not. It is a shell-script which implements a subset (perhaps 20%) of the features in the curses library. Tedickey (talk) 21:57, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed, a redirect is not appropriate so I've reverted your edit. Please wait until a consensus is reached before "being bold". -- samj in out 22:03, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete, non-notable software. Its claim to notability is based only on sources from  the individual who is both the author of the software and the author of this article.  In addition, because of this, the article has substantial WP:COI problems.  It's just another WP:COATRACK for 's self-aggrandization.  See also WP:Articles for deletion/Dana L. French & WP:Articles for deletion/Data center automation. TJRC (talk) 04:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt: send this to the same place as Dana L. French, Dana French, Dana french, and Data center automation, with some salt so that we don't have to go through this again (given Dfrench's habit of recreating articles). Dori (Talk • Contribs) 00:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt - The author is a relentless self-promoter using WP for free advertising. Doc  Tropics  15:53, 24 March 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.