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Software

FireHOL

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Fails WP: GNG. FireHOL maintains a dataset of malicious IPs which a couple studies use, but this article is about a firewall configuration tool that doesn't have any significant coverage. For this reason, I think the article should be deleted. HyperAccelerated (talk) 22:05, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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ADS-AC

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Fails WP: GNG. I could not find any sources to establish notability. This was dePRODed without sourcing improvements, and the user who dePRODed went admitted on my Talk page that they do not have sources to establish notability.

This has also been tagged for notability issues for four months. HyperAccelerated (talk) 14:56, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete if you decide so, but please don't vex me with more discussions. This has been going on for 3 months with undecided results, i want no more discussion, this is too much, do what you want. Tkorrovi (talk) 15:09, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Come again? You can abstain. Nobody is forcing you to participate. HyperAccelerated (talk) 15:15, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I abstain, i already said everything. Tkorrovi (talk) 15:37, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But please end it faster. Tkorrovi (talk) 15:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also did not admit that i don't have sources to establish notability, i just said that it is old and i cannot find no more sources, as things in web disappear in time. Tkorrovi (talk) 18:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This AfD is here to discuss whether this article should be deleted. Nobody here asked you to ramble about a topic of your choice. If you do not have anything to contribute with respect to whether this article should be deleted, stay away and stop cluttering this page. Thanks. HyperAccelerated (talk) 19:47, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have to contribute, but as i said i already said everything. Only just please don't put words into my mouth, as you did when you started this request for deletion (at the beginning of this page). Thank you. Tkorrovi (talk) 19:58, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're clearly not here to have an on-topic discussion, and I have no business with you. Goodbye. HyperAccelerated (talk) 21:32, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, if you have no business about the matter, then who should go away? Tkorrovi (talk) 21:53, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is that text still the same? Anyway, the "user who dePRODed", one can see that in your talk page, the only user who talked with you about ADS-AC, was me. Tkorrovi (talk) 02:42, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article has references of sources, and what is this lack of notability about, lack of sources, if it is not over complicated issue that can be interpreted in many ways, but it is a very simple article. Tkorrovi (talk) 04:36, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unsourced article about 'experimental' software. I'd have gone A7 with it. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 15:05, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I could find no WP:SIGCOV. Fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 15:52, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Iosevka

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This article cites no secondary sources whatsoever, and a preliminary Google search confirms that there is only one news article covering this typeface, and it is in passing. /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 01:18, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The search in question, for those curious: https://news.google.com/search?q=iosevka /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 01:23, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of monospaced typefaces per WP:ATD.4meter4 (talk) 02:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know how I missed this policy. Thank you; I see this as a much better option. I'll leave this open to see what other editors think, though. /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 02:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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2M (DOS)

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Fails WP: GNG. I could not find sources to support notability, but I did find a failed merge proposal for this page as well as some baseless assertions that the subject is notable.

To be clear, if you're voting Keep, we need to see specific citations to reliable sources. HyperAccelerated (talk) 16:41, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Radius_Intelligence

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Articles for deletion/Radius Intelligence

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Article lacks notability; there is not substantial media coverage (WP:SUBSTANTIAL), and the sources cited are niche and industry-specific, lacking sufficient audience (WP:AUDIENCE). The article appears to be self-promotion. Similar issues were raised with the now-deleted article about the company CEO. Tripofmice (talk) 04:31, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Pics.io

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Defunct? software for which no notability appeared to have ever been attained. I cannot identify a merger or redirect target Star Mississippi 00:25, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete This was a cloud storage image plug-in...of which there is very little use of overall because most users of cloud storage edit images on their devices, not in a janky web interface that doesn't even offer any clarity on who developed it. Wasn't notable in this guise, not notable in the usual 'pivot to AI' sense, either. Nate • (chatter) 02:44, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Just another bit of software, nothing inherently notable about it. Also, the editor that created the article was possibly an undisclosed paid editor based on their arguably spammy contribs. -OXYLYPSE (talk) 10:31, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Free Software and Open Source Symposium

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Fails WP:GNG. No reliable secondary sources covered this event. ThatIPEditor ^{Talk · Contribs} 09:42, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: I conducted a WP: BEFORE and reached the same conclusion as the nominator. HyperAccelerated (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails GNG. Based entirely on primary sources and no hits in google news. LibStar (talk) 01:26, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ArkGraphics 2D

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Article fails WP:GNG and WP:PRODUCT. Rainsday (talk) 04:20, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to HarmonyOS: Couldn't find anything to support notability from a WP: BEFORE. HyperAccelerated (talk) 15:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to HarmonyOS: If ArkUI is merged to this target, then this page should redirect there. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect/merge to HarmonyOS per WP:ATD.4meter4 (talk) 17:38, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ArkTS

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Article fails WP:GNG and WP:PRODUCT. Rainsday (talk) 10:33, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: I found sourcing to show that the subject meets WP: GNG. The subject receives in-depth coverage in two papers, published by separate groups of authors at Chinese universities. These papers appeared in ASE 2024, meaning that they are peer-reviewed and thus credible. Here are the papers: [1] [2] I do think this article has several issues, but they can be fixed without deleting the article, so I am inclined to keep it. HyperAccelerated (talk) 18:49, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I accidentally linked to the same paper twice. Here is the link to the other paper. Sorry about that. HyperAccelerated (talk) 04:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I couldn't find two independent sources satisfying GNG. User:HyperAccelerated - is that source independent? There's not wide coverage yet, may be WP:TOOSOON. Nothing against draftifying. Widefox; talk 22:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes -- do you have reason to believe they aren't? One paper is from a team of researchers at Southern University of Science and Technology and another from a team at Beihang University. There isn't anything in the Acknowledgement sections to indicate they got funding from Huawei (who developed ArkTS), and if there was substantial collaboration with Huawei I'd expect someone from Huawei to be on the author list. I suspect there's more coverage in Chinese, but I think that these papers are sufficient to establish notability anyway. HyperAccelerated (talk) 22:37, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Two books, ^[1] is an introduction to the syntax of ArkTS, and ^[2] covers ArkTS on HarmonyOS 3.1. 内存溢出的猫 (talk) 11:34, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kaizenify (talk) 14:02, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Portable object (computing)

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I'm really not sure about this one - it seems like it might be a dupe of Portable Distributed Objects, or could be merged into that article. It's also unclear if .po files are still used for this purpose. Smallangryplanet (talk) 13:28, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep, or merge. Looking on Google Scholar, this seems to be a different concept than Portable Distributed Objects. The article could use some clarification for its uses, particularly for translation, but I see enough notability for it to stay. — BerryForPerpetuity (talk) 16:02, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This is notable. 1250metersdeep (talk) 18:21, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Portable Distributed Objects: This source on the Portable Distributed Objects article refers to CORBA as a usage of "distributed objects": "Creating distributed applications is generally considered difficult. While object-oriented programming promises to make the task more tractable, many programmers still shudder when subjects such as CORBA, OLE, SOM, and OpenDoc arise. However, programming with distributed objects does not have to be difficult, if you start with the right foundation." Additionally, the nominated article lists CORBA as a model that enables usage of "portable distributed objects". This indicates to me that "portable distributed objects" and "portable objects" are terms that can be used interchangeably or are so similar in meaning that separate articles are more likely to cause confusion for readers. The concept of portable (distributed) objects may or may not be notable, but that misses the point of this AfD, which is to discuss whether these two pages discuss the same concept. HyperAccelerated (talk) 18:46, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:35, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this is a DICTDEF, and a excessively-specific (and obsolete) definition at that. The only source is a 2006 patent. gettext is the article about .po files, the .po redirect should be retargeted there. I don't think a DAB page for Remote direct memory access and a half-dozen similar terms is justified. Walsh90210 (talk) 20:53, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with Portable Distributed Objects: I agree that this page and Portable Distributed Objects more or less refer to the same thing and should be merged. BJackJS talk 19:45, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Panorays

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Article seemingly lacks any sources aside from trade press. Even then a significant amount of coverage is related to fundraising events. Brandon (talk) 01:55, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak keep: [1] is definitely SigCov. This book also uses it as an example. (I also found 3 perhaps–slightly-questionable sources: funding, funding, research. I think the last source is unfortunately just a ton of trivial mentions. Depending on how one reads the "trivial coverage" part of NCorp, the funding ones may or may not be SigCov as they both have in-depth and independent coverage of what the company does.) Aaron Liu (talk) 12:39, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Keep. Between the sources provided by Aaron Liu and those in the article, I think this passes WP:NCORP.4meter4 (talk) 00:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Delete second time around for this one. Still PROMO, sourcing falls squarely into WP:NOTCRUNCHBASE territory. Aaron Liu did throw up one promising looking source, but it's hard not to detect the fell hand of corporate PR in there. But one source plus a load of funding announcements isn't meeting the bar for GNG, let alone WP:NCORP. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 10:35, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it's connected to any press release. The book also provides a paragraph about the software as an example, so I'm convinced that there's enough sources and neutral information to add to the article, the criteria for notability. Aaron Liu (talk) 12:49, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ 刘玥; 张荣超 (2024-07-01). 鸿蒙原生应用开发：ArkTS语言快速上手 [Developing Native Applications on HarmonyOS: A Quick Start with ArkTS Language]. 人民邮电出版社. ISBN 9787115642509.
^ Way Lau. 鸿蒙HarmonyOS应用开发入门 [Getting Started with HarmonyOS Application Development]. Tsinghua University Press. ISBN 9787115642509.

[1] 刘玥; 张荣超 (2024-07-01). 鸿蒙原生应用开发：ArkTS语言快速上手 [Developing Native Applications on HarmonyOS: A Quick Start with ArkTS Language]. 人民邮电出版社. ISBN 9787115642509.

[2] Way Lau. 鸿蒙HarmonyOS应用开发入门 [Getting Started with HarmonyOS Application Development]. Tsinghua University Press. ISBN 9787115642509.

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