Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fabrik (software)

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 Keep

With no 'delete' comments other than the nominator, consensus is to keep. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 01:57, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fabrik (software)[edit]

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Non-notable computing experiment from the 1980s. Three listed sources in external links are a wiki (same one twice) and an archive of a 1990s hosted website. Miami33139 (talk) 18:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. No shortage of coverage in the printed press (book search). I agree that the sources used in the article could be of higher quality though. Also, the original paper has 125 citations in google scholar. Clearly significant. Pcap ping 07:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Add references and Keep. Non-trivial coverage is easily googleable: Fabrik: a visual programming environment in ACM SIGPLAN notices(1988) (26 citations in other works), The Fabrik programming environment in IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, 1988., A visual programming interface for Smalltalk in Technology of object-oriented languages and systems: TOOLS 23. It is one of the defining systems that inspired the modern HLL GUI RAD IDEs. PS: pardon me for TLAs. Honeyman (talk) 11:34, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 03:28, 12 February 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.