Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/State machine (LabVIEW programming)


 * 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. No harm to anyone wanting to create a redirect from this page title to an appropriate target. Liz Read! Talk! 19:16, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

State machine (LabVIEW programming)

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Tutorialization to a degree, Not at all understandable to a relatively broad audience. Not encyclopedic material. Does not describe the functionality, reasoning of existance, or its use in history in this article. Would be better for WikiBooks. PerryPerryD Talk To Me 17:30, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * REDIRECT per comments below. KEEP: notable within field and passes notability standards. It is difficult to read for the layperson, and should be rewritten; however, AfD is not for cleaning up articles. It's me... Sallicio!$\color{Red} \oplus$ 17:48, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Please clarify how this article passes Notabilty. PerryPerryD  Talk To Me 17:50, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Here, here, and here. I don't know anything about it, but apparently it's academically-known in the physics departments of multiple universities, is used in multiple locations, including the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator. The article is, without a doubt, poorly-written, and definitely needs someone (who knows about this) to clean up the verbiage and make it more encyclopedic. It's me... Sallicio!$\color{Red} \oplus$ 18:10, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. This'd be fine for a WikiBook on LabVIEW programming, but there's already a Finite-state machine article describing the concept. Adam Sampson (talk) 19:24, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * , I don't know anything about the subject. Is the article the same thing as a Finite-state machine? Or is it a type? Is a finite-state machine to state machine as "automobile" is to "chevrolet?" If it is the latter, then it seems it would still be notable on its own. If it is the former, perhaps it would be best to merge any relevant information that is not already covered in the primary article. It's me... Sallicio!$\color{Red} \oplus$ 19:59, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * This article is describing how to use LabVIEW's primitives to build a simple finite state machine, so it's a worked example of what the FSM article is describing, not a different concept - programmers often just say "state machine" instead of "finite state machine". Adam Sampson (talk) 20:12, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Then it seems WP:NOTGUIDE would apply with a redirect. Someone who knows about the subject could summarize it, and place it appropriately in the primary article. It's me... Sallicio!$\color{Red} \oplus$ 20:25, 1 November 2022 (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.