Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Final (Php)

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The result was delete. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 19:25, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Final (Php)[edit]

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Besides the fact that it's a bad title (should be "final (PHP)")I don't think that the final keyword has enough relevance for its own article. We don't have articles about other visibility keywords like "public", "protected" or "private", and furthermore, if at all, the article should include all finals of other programming languages, too, because they don't differ. However, there are more than enough articles, e.g. Class (computer programming), Information hiding or Inheritance (object-oriented programming) (and probably more that I missed), which may deal with this topic in a way that's more than satisfying for interested readers. The Evil IP address (talk) 09:46, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and merge into Inheritance (object-oriented programming). If we have to have an article on final, which I think is unnecessary, it needs to be broader in scope. PHP's implementation is nothing special. – anna 10:18, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. – anna 11:12, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I disagree with the nom in that I think we could justify articles on language keywords, and certainly Other Stuff Doesn't Exist would apply - the fact we haven't yet written articles that ought to be there means little. That said though, I'd delete this one. final can perhaps be justified, and it can justify a narrower and more specific article than Inheritance (object-oriented programming) (that's an enormously broad topic). However PHP's particular flavour of final doesn't appear to be anything specific or notable beyond the general concept. Any article on PHP's final alone would either have no content beyond a hatnote, or it would fail WP:NOTAGUIDE. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:50, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I seriously doubt there's enough scope to have language-agnostic articles on keywords like public, private, etc, let alone one article for every standard uninteresting implementation of each keyword (which is what this is). These should be covered in the OO articles -- most of them, I suspect, would rate note more than a sentence or two's mention. bou·le·var·dier (talk) 14:23, 28 April 2011 (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.