Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4

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 Delete. Peacent 02:00, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4[edit]

This article, in its various forms, has never been coherent and encyclopedic. Its content, for some months, has just been a spurious metric (some dudes, using their own arbitrary taxonomy which isn't even sketched in the article, gave 557 points to XP and 586 points to OS X 10.4). The article survived previous nominations on the theory that someone might make something worthwhile of the article, but no one has, even after goalposts were put on the discussion page. If some party ever does create a decent article, they can do it out of mainspace, then show it to an admin before relaunch. In the meantime, it's time to save the users. —TheGhostOfAdrianMineha 04:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no hope of ever becoming encyclopedic. AlistairMcMillan 14:08, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete While I don't have anything against comparison pages per se, comparing just two individual OS versions is not appropriate for Wikipedia. That sets up the wrong tone. FrozenPurpleCube 14:37, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Whilst it should no doubt be possible to create a good Windows/MacOS comparison -- Comparison of Windows and Linux, whilst not flawless, is a perfect example of what to strive for -- the current article as it stands has no reason to exist. The only content is a description of XvsXP.com, and the article title for some reason focuses on one version of Mac OS and and old version of Windows. If our eventual aim if the page was kept would be to rewrite the content from scratch (based on the Windows v Linux article) and move the page to the correct (versionless) title, we might as well just delete this page and create the new article from scratch. -- simxp (talk) 18:23, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete — Yep, it had it's chance. But nobody has made any attempt to improve the article (it needs sources, notability, cleanup), so it has to be deleted. *Cremepuff 222* 00:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete — not developed enough and (in prose form) not the kind of article we need on Wikipedia (a table might be acceptable). Either way, if someone really wants to write an article on this subject they would probably be best starting anew. Cedars 02:34, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per nominator. -/- Warren 03:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, It isn't likely that this will become encyclopedic. Miss Minerva 05:15, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, wow. this is worthless.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.217.99.182 (talk • contribs)
Delete. No information here worth keeping. A single website's analysis of these operating systems does not warrant an encyclopedic entry. Someguy1221 21:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, comparing apples and oranges doesn't make for an encyclopedia article. --Android Mouse 21:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 11:12, 18 June 2007 (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.