Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Operating system advocacy (2nd nomination)

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The result was keep. MBisanz ^talk 04:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Operating system advocacy[edit]

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This was nominated twice for deletion in 2005, and was kept for rationales that I believe do not or no longer apply. I don't believe having an article on OS "fanboys" has any current merit on Wikipedia, and the sources in the article do not convince me otherwise. Advocacy for certain operating systems should belong in the articles of those operating systems (or their own articles like Apple evangelist), and comparison of operating systems already exists. A keep rationale in the 2005 discussion was that the latter article needed a more user-friendly "introduction". Assuming that this rationale still holds (which I don't know if it does), either operating system or an introduction to operating systems article would work better than this article, which is currently (not that this is a valid rationale) a steaming pile of garbage. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:07, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:07, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:07, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - clearly, from the article, this is a "thing"... including the examples of actual bodies formed to advocate for different OSs. Deathlibrarian (talk) 07:06, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as it is a topic with many organisations and groups devoted to it.Jackattack1597 (talk) 22:12, 17 December 2021 (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.