Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K9Copy

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. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

K9Copy

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Not notable. No claim to notability. Has been tagged for external sources for several months without any being presented. A quick search of the top 20 news.google.com archive shows references to the software, but they are minor mentions, not focused on this software in particular. Miami33139 (talk) 00:36, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

• Vehemently Oppose. k9copy is a famous and one-of-its-kind linux application, that provides a necessary and useful Free Software replacement for an extremely famous Windows App (namely, DVD Shrink, whose page here has never been proposed for deletion). Since it's a piece of software, it is obvious that you will not find references to it in the New York Times or the like, but this is not enough to ascertain non-notability. For all linux users with even a mild interest in dvds, this program is a must-have, and it is important to keep information about it in the repository of human knowledge that wp is, specially since other software in the same category are present in the encyclopedia. See here and here for some reviews by trusted third party sources in the field of free software. Gorgonzola (talk) 13:19, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Aitias // discussion 00:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

• Keep. I find myself persuaded by Gorgonzola. Not by his "vehemence", mind you, but by the links that he provided. The linux.com link was probably enough for me. Unschool 03:45, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. Per Unschool. LotLE×talk 08:53, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. When I started using this software, it was quite easy to notice what Gorgonzola has mentioned: it is the most famous (if not the only true) GNU/Linux counterpart to Windows' DVDShrink. Miguel Vieira (talk) 18:11, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

• • Can anyone voting keep show reliable sources independent of the subject that demonstrate the notability of the subject? If not then every vote is WP:ILIKEIT not Wikipedia's guidelines. Miami33139 (talk) 22:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Both links provided by Gorgonzola seem independent and reliable enough to me. Unschool (and LotLE×talk, indirectly) explicitly justified his vote based on that. If you disagree that they are reliable and independent sources, then please tell us why. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miguel Vieira (talk • contribs) 15:16, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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.