Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swoogle


 * 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. (non-administrative closure) -- RyRy5  ( talk ) 02:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Swoogle

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Pretty cool tool, but doesn't appear to be under active development. Last news posting on website is from November 2007, with regular postings in February 2006. Paper appears to have been published in 2004. Note search engine still says 2007 on Splash page. Finally the one reference is hosted on the ebiquity website, which appears to be just the website of the lab that was developing this project. In short the tool is not notable, under active development, or fully functional. I let User: Finin know that I would use the AfD process to delete the article unless he had any objections about 3 weeks ago, I haven't heard from him. Jussen (talk) 21:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, a project which has received substantial scholarly attention including an ACM paper devoted to it which itself is cited 172 times. There are numerous Google Books results as well (some overlap). Not bad for a moribund project, really. --Dhartung | Talk 22:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - That the project is now moribund doesn't change the fact that it received significant attention at the time. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 23:11, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep per Dhartung and Morven. Gorgonzola (talk) 20:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep as well. You convinced me!  I'd like to point out though that most of the Google Scholar articles appear to be written by contributors.  While we usually require third party sources to write about the subject as a main topic, that's academia I'm afraid. Jussen (talk) 01:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)


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