Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Informatics Practices

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The result was merge to Computer science. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:42, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Informatics Practices[edit]

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This article is not noteworthy enough for an article on Wikipedia. Said subject is only taught in one school. Torrent01 (talk) 01:37, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reformatted by Eastmain (talk · contribs · count) using the {{afd2}} template. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:20, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Informatics practices to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Informatics Practices (capital P) to match original article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:27, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There is no evidence that this is a generally recognised category. Searches for sources indicate that the expression is entirely or almost entirely restricted to one high school exam syllabus (though my impression is that it is an exam taken by a number of schools, rather than just one school). In any case there does not seem to be substantial coverage (if any coverage) of it as a subject in its own right, as opposed to just the title of that school syllabus. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:25, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Incidentally, I am puzzled as to why Torrent01 has created this AfD, since he or she removed a PROD to do so. If he/she thinks that the article should be deleted then why not just leave the PROD in place? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:25, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Actually this subject seems to be a standard part of Indian curriculum for computer science. Google search shows 175,000 hits, with another 11,000 for the singular "Informatic Practices" including non-Indian articles [1]. So it's clearly not taught at just one high school. Two high schools with WP articles link to the page: St. Norbert School Indore and The Abu Dhabi Indian School ‎ —Мандичка^YO 😜 10:02, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. GameInfirmary Talk 11:36, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The original PROD was many years old (2009!), and I figured that re-tagging it as a plain old AFD would make more sense, as well as give the situation more attention. Torrent01 (talk) 19:24, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Torrent01: You must have misread something. The PROD dated from 13:55, 7 August 2018‎, and the article was in fact only created on 26 July 2018‎ . The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:02, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Computer science as a subfield without the coverage to support another article. It would basically be a content fork, too, since as far as I can see (having read a bunch of syllabi) it's a large subset of computer science. Enterprisey (talk!) 02:35, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Atlantic306 (talk) 20:43, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Alpha3031 (t • c) 02:19, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Computer science both due to lack of sufficient sourcing (though it just seems like it's not suitably written about - it's obviously very active) but it more reads like a sub-set of CS as noted above. I would certainly think it's possible for this to break into a legitimate contentfork article at some point, and potentially it's own article if differences can be indicated as sufficient. Nosebagbear (talk) 12:26, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per above. Passes WP:V, not WP:GNG (info is good, can't be its own article). Redditaddict6 9 19:34, 5 September 2018 (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.