Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xrdp


 * 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. The "keep" opinion do not address our inclusion requirements (WP:N), which do not take into account whether software is available in certain distributions.  Sandstein  08:38, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Xrdp

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Non-notable open source software. Googling finds lots of wikis and software catalogs that mention it but only one solid review that I can see, and it's pretty long on how-to and short on critical evaluation. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:36, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 23:55, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi,

I'm a computer engineer and found this article useful and feel deleting the article removes value from wikipedia.

RDP is an important technology in MS Windows and this XRDP is a technology to enable the use of RDP on unix.

Simply knowing that name and what it is helps a lot to find more documentation within the appropriate linux repositories. There is a homepage for this project here. http://www.xrdp.org/

Its not really a "software", like ms word, its more an implementation of a protocol. While I wouldn't expect wikipedia to have a lot of information about it, a stub page would be useful to some people looking for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.106.136.129 (talk) 14:20, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * You're probably right - but we have to have a source independent of the subject to justify keeping the article. The alternative would be having articles about everything anyone has ever posted online - you've seen the internet, you know why this wouldn't work. So, any ideas where we could find sources? UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 13:54, 26 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete in the absence of sourcing. I'm happy to switch over to keep if we can source this, however. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 13:54, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep as this is a package available in the standard ubuntu and centos repositories. Considering it is in the first two large top linux distributions that I checked, I can't understand how it can be labeled as "non-notable". ssd (talk) 15:11, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per Ultraexact. Sources are woefully lacking.  If this was a notable piece of software, reliable sources would be talking about it.  &mdash;SW&mdash; chat 16:39, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

My primary desktop is Windows 7 so I find using xrdp to be an excellent way to be able to have only one Remote Desktop - Microsoft's remote desktop client. That is, I do not need to have a separate client for Windows and *nix servers and desktops. User Stuartyeates justification for deletion seems to be the lack of critical review but to me this is not a sufficient justification to remove information about the project from Wikipedia. Rather it should be motivation to solicit such reviews. Stuartyeates also also asserts xrdp is "non-notable" project which seems to me to be an entirely subjective opinion and, again, not a basis on which an article should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bseddon (talk • contribs) 00:23, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
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