Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TransADF (2nd nomination)


 * 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 no consensus. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 09:48, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

TransADF
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NN product. It can't even source it's claim of notability. There was literally no response to this AfD, so I have relisted it per NPASR. MSJapan (talk) 17:17, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:08, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment Seems to be widely used, based on the number of hits for fora, instruction websites etc. that recommend its use, but that's all they do - say "use TransADF to copy the disk". No ideas whether that constitutes sufficient notability for a piece of software.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 10:03, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 15:51, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment There are Amiga centered magazines from late 1990s/early2000s (some are even published now - eg. Amiga Future) and Amiga articles in mainstream media (eg. Micro Mart). I will look for more sources of this kind. However, I don´t expect more than brief mention. Merge with Amiga Disk File could be solution as other ADF related applications are mentioned there.Pavlor (talk) 09:37, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * My search doesn´t look promising so far. TransADF seems to be one of the many nice utils one uses (well used) on Amiga, but nothing really notable. I will ask on Amiga related forum for other sources I might miss, but I don´t think this will change outcome of this AfD. Merge with Amiga software (there is already wikilink to TransADF and most AfDs for non-notable amiga software related articles ended in merging there) or Amiga Disk File as I wrote above may be good idea. As of TransADF, really nice piece of work, runs on any AmigaOS from 1.3 of late 80s to 4.1FE (works even with virtual floppies) - impressive for such software, but certainly not source of notability...Pavlor (talk) 16:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your efforts! :) -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:01, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I added two references from Amiga Format. Although this magazine can be considered as third party reliable source, both references are weak: the first one is only brief description of features of TransADF, which was included on Cover-CD (entire text cca 1/6 of the page); the second one only mentions TransADF among other ADF related applications. I also rewrote unreferenced claims about compression and added reference for features (self-published readme file of TransADF on Aminet). Search for sources continues...Pavlor (talk) 10:47, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Although there may be other sources I didn´t find (and I tried...), I don´t think these would offer more than vague references like the two from Amiga Format. With no hope to improve TransADF article beyond stub state (it is small util after all), I propose MERGE to Amiga software article (which is mess in itself, but at least something we can work upon - only time is the limit).Pavlor (talk) 19:11, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, let me ask you this: is it worth waiting months for someone to merge this, or is it better to redirect it and just recreate whatever's useful from the sources you have found in a few minutes? MSJapan (talk) 19:42, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I could do such merge. It would be first such merge for me and useful exercise. Of course, with such small content in the article and not so long history (edits, not years), even simple redirect would be fine.Pavlor (talk) 20:43, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:17, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - You can selective merge the content, and just ignore anything in the instructions that says to blank or redirect the source page (for now). MSJapan (talk) 18:18, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * And miss all the fun with merge? To be more serious, after this article was PRODed few moths ago, DEPRODing user proposed merge to Amiga software article. However attempt to merge was reverted, because rules were not followed (no discussion on target´s talk page). I propose to do it right, this time. And I volunteer for this effort.Pavlor (talk) 08:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC)


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