Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HOCR (software)

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The result was delete. NJA (t/c) 10:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

HOCR (software)[edit]

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I can't find significant coverage for this software. Joe Chill (talk) 15:47, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Joe Chill (talk) 20:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. -- Pcap ping 20:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, weakly. This is about an optical character reader for Hebrew script. Google News, Books, and Scholar haven't heard of it. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 20:45, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is GPL licensed free software; I, as a matter of principle, do not support the deletion of Free software (software libre) projects. Samboy (talk) 22:33, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- These types of !votes don't help save an article in AfD. Joe Chill (talk) 23:32, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- In keeping with NPOV, the license is largely irrelevant at AfD. --Cybercobra (talk) 23:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Samboy. LotLE×talk 20:26, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- This doesn't address the notability. Joe Chill (talk) 20:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No sources, no article. The authors who wrote the article would be those best informed to provide those sources. Miami33139 (talk) 04:14, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This doesn't seem to have an article in Hebrew Wikipedia; and Google translation of the wikibook linked from our article reads like product documentation of the sort that should be hosted by the software's maintainers, not the Wikimedia Foundation. These are both bad signs. —Korath (Talk) 07:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator. Wikipedia is not a software directory, and we do not give special treatment to applications just because they happen to be licensed under the GPL. I'm not sure where that notion came from. We require non-trivial coverage from reliable third party publications (plural). Full stop. JBsupreme (talk) 22:08, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no independent sources equals no article. All the keep !votes are just "I like it". 16x9 (talk) 01:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. I was able to find a fair number of references to this software in Israeli Linux blogs, e.g. [1] the blogs of this Israeli online Linux magazine, but apparently nothing raises to the level of WP:RS. There was also a conference presentation by the software's author, and a passing mention in [2] Ynet. But that seems to be it. User:Okedem, who is native Hebrew speaker, wasn't able to find significant coverage either. Pcap ping 17:05, 13 January 2010 (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.