Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Web operating system (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  12:26, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Web operating system
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This article seems to be an OR/synthesis of a bunch of different things which have been called "WebOS" (even if they have little in common beyond that name), web desktops / webtops (which aren't actually operating systems at all, even if they are sometimes called them), and tangential links between other OSs and the web SJK (talk) 20:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep or disambiguate, per above. MB298 (talk) 20:48, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The problem with disambiguating, is some of the things the article mentions which are called "WebOS" are arguably non-notable. For example, the mid-1990s "WebOS" research project at UC Berkeley ref - even though one may be able to find a few peer-reviewed publications writing this up, I would argue that research projects are non-notable unless they are particularly influential in their field of study, and there is no evidence this particular project meets that bar. Someone has just gone looking for everything they could find called "WebOS" or "Web operating system" and crammed it together in an article, without thought to whether those things are individually notable or have anything much in common beyond their name. SJK (talk) 20:54, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * the influence of the Berkeley WebOS project should not be too hard to establish from the 200+ papers citing it. Why not merge selectively to Internet operating system? Q VVERTYVS (hm?) 08:08, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not opposed to mentioning WebOS in an appropriate place, however the merge target should be determined based on what WebOS actually was, not just based on superficial similarity of names. From my own reading of one of the papers, I think something like Grid computing would be a better target. Despite its name, WebOS wasn't actually an operating system per se, more a middleware layer that ran on top of an existing operating system to provide distributed computing services, similar in principle to Distributed Computing Environment or Project Athena – if you read the paper I cited, you discover that WebOS runs on top of Solaris 2.5.1. SJK (talk) 08:27, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:31, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ansh 666 23:50, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Curro2 (talk) 05:56, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - a random description of things with a similar names does not make an article. Shritwod (talk) 02:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - article itself indicates that it is a series of divergent usage examples of the words in adjacency, rather than a coherent concept; multiple dead and useless references; no yield on fresh search. FeatherPluma (talk) 03:08, 13 February 2016 (UTC)


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