Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Code page 856

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 transwiki to wikibooks:Character_Encodings and delete‎. This is a bundled close for the following AfDs:

Since each page was nominated separately, there is a certain dispersion of views among the different AfDs. But I think I speak for all--and this view was expressed in several of these AfDs--when I say that ideally, all should be handled consistently. All these AFDs have been relisted twice, which garnered a grand total of one(!) additional !vote in aggregate - nothing else in twelve days on any of them. So I see no point in keeping these AfDs open any longer.

Several participants in many of the AfDs !voted to merge the content to Code_page#DOS_code_pages, which currently only indexes the various code pages, without including any of the character tables. This approach might work for one or two such tables. But merging the dozens of different code pages, each with a 128 or 256 character table, into a single page will result in a ridiculously large and unwieldy article, which would likely head straight to a discussion about splitting it, bringing us right back to where we started.

I see broad support for a transwiki to wikibooks:Character_Encodings, where the information would fit in nicely with the various appendices. This isn't the first time this is being done. We faced a similar situation in 2020. So rather than reinvent the wheel, I'll follow the same approach taken by the now-retired closing admin there, and invite editors, ideally those with the wikibooks transwiki import permission, to carry out the move within the next 30 days (or longer if required), at the end of which I or any admin will delete the pages here. Please ping me when you're done, or if extra time is needed.

If there are similar pages that I missed, or ones that haven't been nominated, feel free to boldly carry out the transwiki move, linking to this AfD in your edit summary when tagging the page for deletion. Owen× ☎ 18:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Code page 856

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Fails WP: NOTDICT. I can't find any sources that could expand the article beyond the definition of the codepage layout. HyperAccelerated (talk) 04:57, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Computing, and Israel. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Has enough sources, and is a well-established code page. ~~I now have no decision about this one.~~ Transwiki, no sources. Alexlatham96 (talk) 18:43, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have done nothing to explain how this article has adequate sourcing. HyperAccelerated (talk) 19:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge or Transwiki per my rationale for Code page 3846 above. Davemc0 (talk) 17:17, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 22:29, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: More discussion regarding whether to have a central article about code pages on Wikipedia, or to transwiki it to some subpage of wikibooks:Character_Encodings would be helpful here.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:15, 18 December 2024 (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.