Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X (second nomination)

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 No consensus to delete.--Konst.able^Talk 11:59, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X

Delete Three months since the previous nomination and nothing has happened. No one is interested in working on this. And the few that have made edits don't seem to care about citing sources or avoiding POV and OR. AlistairMcMillan 20:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete reads like OR, and at any rate is not article worthy. --Alex (Talk) 21:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep there is nothing wrong with this article, and IMO a comparison between the most popular and second most popular desktop operating systems is well worthy of an article here. Cynical 21:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Wikipedia is not structured to serve as a buyer's guide. Mixes OS with applications, completely ignores everything ouside end user scope. Pavel Vozenilek 00:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Pavel. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:49, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite It needs to be re written but what with Star Trek versus Star Wars I don't think it needs to be deleted. --CartoonDiablo 17:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)CartoonDiablo[reply]

Go ahead, delete. You know what, Alistair McMillan, you've really put this article down the shitter anyway. As the history page will show, you had nothing better to do with your time than to prepare this article to propose it for deletion; you hacked and hacked away at its material and obviously want it gone. I dont know what your grudge is, but a genuine argument such as this would've been fine if you hadent made it your sole purpous to delete it. Truly there is nothing wrong with this page; but your will seems to be stronger than mine.

The article is open to many ideas and contributions to all sides of the argument, but apparently its not good enough for Wikipedia (although Tom Miller is).

I expected this; after you followed my every move like a hawk. You are--without a doubt-- the worst WikiSnob I know of.

Thank you for your patronage, administrator. --Alegoo92 21:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words. For the record, I helped out with your article on "Speakable items"[1]. And I've tidied up a bunch of your other edits. Proving citations where I can, which you NEVER do. If I thought this article was salvageable I would try to fix it, but it ain't salvageable because it just ain't encyclopaedic.

BTW I stand by my edits on Comparison of Windows and Mac OS X, if you would like to discuss any in particular... AlistairMcMillan 23:15, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite per Cartoon. —MJCdetroit 03:10, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and clean up There's useful information here, and I'm sure sources could be found for most if not all of the currently unsourced content. I wouldn't say anything in here is OR, it just lacks sources. JulesH 21:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - religious war, unlikely to be useful to any reader, impossible to keep NPoV. Michael K. Edwards 09:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I was under the impression that encyclopedias were meant to provide information, not comparisons. -Amarkov ^babble 14:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and clean up If written well, this could help describe the OS's that much better. People can learn from comparison just as well as direct description. Mark Hurst 14:09, 17 October 2006

Keep and clean up per Mark. To Amarkov: Search "comparison of" is 32k+ articles. A comparison provides information because it shows the pros and cons of what is being compared. As to all those saying would be impossible to keep NPoV, thats what protection and semiprotection is for. Ozzie The Owl 03:55, 22 October 2006 (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.