Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/API documentation

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The result was redirect. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 22:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

API documentation[edit]

It carries no other info than what can be inferred from "API" and "documentation": "API documentation" is just documentation of an API. Gennaro Prota ^•Talk 04:23, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. If you need Wikipedia to figure out what this is, you shouldn't even be asking. =^_^= --Dennisthe2 05:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per nom. And please document that redirect in Fortran or Cobol. SkierRMH,09:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Bec-Thorn-Berry 11:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Application programming interface. -SpuriousQ 12:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or redirect to Application programming interface. We have an article on telephone book ... this is no different. I can think of two meaningful things off the top of my head that the article could discuss. (1) Some companies don't include part of the API in their API documentation - that was one of the anti-competitive practices Micro$oft was accused of. (2) API document generators - already briefly mentioned - are a helpful tool and are built in to some languages. I would suggest either keep or redirect it to API with leave to create a better article on the topic. BigDT 16:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The first point might be relevant, though I'm not sure (about phone books… I don't think they aren't different). The second one certainly isn't: documentation generators (documentation extractors) aren't specifically for APIs (though Sun and its Javadoc-related terminology has created some confusion in this area :-/). —Gennaro Prota ^•Talk 18:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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