Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valknut (software)


 * 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. Proto :: type  11:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Valknut (software)


Yet another piece of non-notable open source software that fails the WP:SOFTWARE criteria. Memmke 09:45, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: WP:SOFTWARE is a proposed guideline, not policy. -  Corbin  Be excellent (TINC) 23:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. yandman  10:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as it is in Debian Stable, which is a criteria for WP:SOFTWARE --GargoyleMT 17:39, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "Note that some distributions, such as Debian, include a particularly large number of packages. The more packages a distribution includes, the less notability is implied by inclusion in that distribution. Statistics such as the Debian Popularity Contest help to estimate the usage of particular packages in a particular distribution". In the test, Valknut is at the bottom. yandman  17:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Valknut is one of only two actively developed Direct Connect file sharing clients for Linux (that I know of; the other is LinuxDC++).  I'm enough of a new user that I'm not sure which guidelines to cite.  Plus this is the third Direct Connect related AfD nomination (all of which happened recently), so I'm still learning the AfD ropes.  --GargoyleMT 18:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as it is also in FreeBSD, which is also a criteria for WP:SOFTWARE bheekling 07:16, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Other distributions include Fedora Core. Nysin 08:40, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not in Fedora Core, it's in Fedora Extras. Memmke 08:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, indeed. Nysin 08:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as notable by relative notability. Valknut is the most notable GUI Linux DC client. Would you say that NetBSD is non-notable just because of low usage rates? -  Corbin  Be excellent (TINC) 23:38, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
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