Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CURL

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The result was keep. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 03:20, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CURL

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Gains only passing mentions, routine coverage and how-to mentions in sources and literature. PROD declined seven years ago. wumbolo ^^^ 12:53, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:06, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Useful little utility and widespreadly known by *nix peoples and sometimes comes up in testing etc. The book Web Security Testing Cookbook by Brian Hope, Paco Hope, Ben Walther isbn: has a whole chapter 7 Automating specific Tasks with cURL which after the seemingly appropriate epigraph What do we live for, if it not to make life difficult for each other? — George Eliot then goes on to explore curl the utility. Most books with Curl in the title will refer to the programming language.Djm-leighpark (talk) 14:31, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep with a merge to a page on Linux utilities also reasonable. [1] and [2] are non-trivial mentions, but there's little to say about this beyond the man page contents. power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There's an IBM source, and reviews like Techworld so at least scrapes WP:GNG. AfD is not cleanup, although sources are scarce. Widefox; talk 17:32, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Hundreds of books at Safari Books Online appear to have chapters on cURL. The ones that compare wget and cURL might be useful [3]. Just commenting for now as I haven't had a chance to dig deeper into the possible sources from that search to evaluate if any count for GNG yet. PaleAqua (talk) 15:35, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Very well known utility amongst web developers, article receives hundreds of views daily but significantly fewer on weekends indicating workplace/commercial use, and as mentioned above features in many books including some well-known book series - adding "ftp" to book query yields [4]. S D 5 22:35, 19 September 2018 (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.