Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al Anees
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- 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 of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This software title is probably not notable. Only 29 search results outside of Wikipedia for "Al Anees". No other articles link to this, it has only been edited by 4 users, and not since 10 November 2005. This message was generated by a bot. — Catapult 14:29, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: I might add that the search results do not appear to pertain to the software. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 14:30, Jan. 24, 2006
- Delete non-notable. --Oscarthecat 14:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- DOS based anything belongs in an article about the history of software, if it was notable. This doesn't get its own article. Ruby 14:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as unverifiable... I can't find anything about it outside of WP mirrors, can you? --W.marsh 15:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: I'm less willing to just give a computer program the benefit of the doubt than the Persian theologian above, but this is another case where a web search limited to Latin script is obviously insufficient. u p p l a n d 17:34, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Google produces better results but doesn't allow queries from the command line. I searched Google manually, and (outside of wikipedia mirrors) the closest thing I can find was a "Al-Jazeera suffers DoS attack". — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 17:56, Jan. 24, 2006
- My point is that, with "an Arabic DOS-based chat program released in 1990", search engine results have to be evaluated based on a search in Arabic script. Anything written about the program is likely to be in Arabic (as it would only be relevant to an Arabic-speaking audience), and whether you search Alexa or Google makes less difference than the choice of language. (Of course, one also need to be able to evaluate the search results, but we do have quite a few Arabic-speakers around to help with that, don't we?) --u p p l a n d 18:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, let's find an Arabic speaker. I'm curious now whether the topic of the article actually exists/existed. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 18:25, Jan. 24, 2006
- My point is that, with "an Arabic DOS-based chat program released in 1990", search engine results have to be evaluated based on a search in Arabic script. Anything written about the program is likely to be in Arabic (as it would only be relevant to an Arabic-speaking audience), and whether you search Alexa or Google makes less difference than the choice of language. (Of course, one also need to be able to evaluate the search results, but we do have quite a few Arabic-speakers around to help with that, don't we?) --u p p l a n d 18:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Google produces better results but doesn't allow queries from the command line. I searched Google manually, and (outside of wikipedia mirrors) the closest thing I can find was a "Al-Jazeera suffers DoS attack". — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 17:56, Jan. 24, 2006
- 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.