Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AFF3CT

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. Kurykh (talk) 04:11, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

AFF3CT[edit]

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Does not appear to meet WP:PRODUCT. Ahecht (TALK
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Please, let us give you some elements that will hopefully help you to better understand why we believe AFF3CT is elligible to be on Wikipedia. AFF3CT is a non-profit, open source (MIT licence) and academic tool to simulate Error-Correcting Codes (ECCs). As such, it fufills the Wikipedia philosophy of open knowledge and sharing. AFF3CT can be used as: a research tool to develop new codes, in industrial contexts to reproduce existing results and to simulate new configurations on big clusters. But AFF3CT could also be used by any random individual (a student, a maker, an Arduino addict, ...) that would like to improve its own communication system. A common application of AFF3CT is the wireless communications like WiFi, 3G, 4G, 5G, etc, but it could be extended to any other communication setup. It can also be used as a library like the Wikipedia referenced IT++ but it is simply more specific to the Forward Error Correction (FEC) domain. More generally, this tool helps to better understand what is an error correction code and thus modestly contributes in understanding the (technologic) world around us. Even more importantly, the most simple reason why we would like AFF3CT on Wikipedia is maybe that we would have loved to find out the existence of such a tool on Wikipedia (or elsewhere) when we started to get interested in ECC.

We hope that these few elements will help you better understand why we want to share the existence of AFF3CT on Wikipedia.

Please feel free to give us some tips in how to improve the AFF3CT page ?

K0uchy (talk) 12:47, 1 March 2017 (UTC)K0uchy[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:09, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. It does not matter how wonderful the tool is (looks great by the way). Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, which means we have articles about topics that are already well known, as shown by independent reliable sources. It isn't a place to publicize something new. You need sources that show what others say, in depth, about the tool. Also the present article is a copyright violation of https://www.researchgate.net/project/AFF3CT-A-Fast-Forward-Error-Correction-Tool. Even if you wrote the text there, it can't be copied here. Notice the copyright notice at the bottom of that page. StarryGrandma (talk) 22:48, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.