Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SmartDec Scanner


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 02:01, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

SmartDec Scanner

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The only references cited in the article are entries in three indiscriminate lists. I've searched for additional cites and haven't found anything usable. Google turns up some social media activity and a lot of crypto news sites - SmartDec has a 'blockchain edition' and is a member of the 'Blockchain Association', so please keep WP:GS/Crypto in mind and remember that crypto news sites are generally not reliable sources. Google scholar turns up a few hits for a program called 'Smart Dec.' That is a C++ decompiler, not a static analyzer, and is a separate project by separate people. I believe this article doesn't meet either WP:GNG or WP:NSOFTWARE and should be deleted. MrOllie (talk) 15:04, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. MrOllie (talk) 15:04, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 16:07, 24 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Article created by employee of developer so WP:SELFPROMO. Mattg82 (talk) 21:57, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete self-promo, insufficient external coverage to meet notability requirements per nom. creffpublic  a creffett franchise (talk to the boss) 19:54, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Regarding the article creator's comment below: I'm well aware of OWASP and NIST, but neither of those lists confers any more notability than "someone put it on a list." Per the OWASP page: OWASP does not endorse any of the vendors or tools by listing them in the table below.. Per the NIST page: In no case does [a trade name being identified on the list] imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), nor does it imply that the products are necessarily the best available for the purpose. If those lists were of products recommended by OWASP or NIST, then that would be a different story, but these are just lists of tools for people to look at, and it looks like you can just submit a pull request/email (respectively) to get your product added (as long as it meets the minimum definition of a security analysis tool). That means that the lists are not sufficient to confer notability. creffpublic  a creffett franchise (talk to the boss) 18:30, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment from page creator (reformatted by creffpublic)
 * The only references cited in the article are entries in three indiscriminate lists. ;Delete self-promo, insufficient external coverage to meet notability requirements per nom
 * https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Source_Code_Analysis_Tools - OWASP is a very trusted source in the community of application security testing as well as https://samate.nist.gov/index.php/Source_Code_Security_Analyzers.html.
 * OWASP is not affiliated with any technology development company, but it supports the competent use of security technologies. We are going to add some new references from users and companies as soon as possible.
 * I've searched for additional cites and haven't found anything usable. Google turns up some social media activity and a lot of crypto news sites - SmartDec has a 'blockchain edition' and is a member of the 'Blockchain Association', so please keep WP:GS/Crypto in mind and remember that crypto news sites are generally not reliable sources.
 * Yes, SmartDec company works with Blockchain projects, but company's main product is SmartDec Scanner, and the dedicated team works on SmartDec Scanner. SmartDec Scanner is not focused on blockchain, it can scan mobile, web and business applications. Also it can scan Solidity and Vyper source code for blockchain projects.
 * Google scholar turns up a few hits for a program called 'Smart Dec.' That is a C++ decompiler, not a static analyzer, and is a separate project by separate people. I believe this article doesn't meet either WP:GNG or WP:NSOFTWARE and should be deleted.
 * SmartDec decompiler was developed by SmartDec company. The founders of the project work with SmartDec Scanner now. SmartDec Scanner is a SAST tool, which includes decompilation phase, because it can scan binary code. You can find the sources of SmartDec decompiler on SmartDec’s github: https://github.com/smartdec/smartdec. Also you can find the authors of SmartDec articles (like https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6079860, Katerina Troshina and Alexander Chernov) on smartdec.com page. I think that SmartDec Scanner should not be deleted from the Wikipedia that users should get all brief information about all possible tools that can help in security question.
 * Delete Article created by employee of developer so WP:SELFPROMO
 * It's not a promo, just a brief information without any promotion
 * A.prokofiev (talk) 13:34, 30 January 2020 (UTC) A.Prokofiev


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