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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. Withdrawn by nominator. - MrX 17:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kid3[edit]

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Non-notable software. Fails WP:NSOFTWARE and WP:GNG. - MrX 16:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • I am withdrawing this AfD. It seems that there are a number of German sources, and although I can't verify most of them, the sheer abundance of minor, less reliable sources strongly suggests that the software may pass our minimum notability guidelines.- MrX 17:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:26, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think that Kid3 is non-notable software. Compare its download statistics on SourceForge with other audio tag editors which have an article in Wikipedia: Kid3 has 2335 weekly downloads, EasyTag has 558 weekly downloads, and puddletag has 117 weekly downloads. Since the first release, Kid3 has been downloaded 332,219 times from SourceForge. This numbers are only a small part of all Kid3 installations. Kid3 is most popular on Linux (especially KDE), most Linux users will install Kid3 from the repositories of their distribution, Kid3 is part of all relevant Linux distributions, e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. Several DVDs containing Kid3 have been published (e.g. the DVDs accompanying c't 13/2008, 17/2010, 14/2011, 1/2012, 15/2012, EasyLinux 2/2008, 1/2013, iPadWelt 03/2013, Opensource-DVD), thus there are also more Windows and Mac users.

Several specialized magazines have reported about Kid3 (e.g. c’t 9/2005, 13/2008, 5/2010, 26/2012, c’t kompakt 2/2010, EasyLinux 2/2008, 1/2013 (rating: 5 of 5 stars), PC-WELT 02/2012), search on Heise Online for arcticles in c't. Kid3 is also mentioned in books such as the Ubuntu Linux Bible (p. 496), Michael Koffler - Linux das umfassende Handbuch (p. 313). These are German magazines and books, I do not know about magazines in other languages, but there are for example articles in the Italian PC Professionale and the English Wired.

There are also quite a few reviews about Kid3 on the web: 

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ufleisch (talk • contribs) 04:47, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I have added bibliography and references to proof notability. - Ufleisch (talk) 14:00, 5 January (CET) —Preceding undated comment added 13:01, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Urs, Thanks for your contribution.

Gene93k, can an will you give an consideration whether the contribution is sufficient. 

Please advise if anything is missing.
  • It is the subject of multiple printed third party manuals.
  • I used the Style guide for software like Easytag.
Please advise if the structure is not correct according to the guidelines of Wikipedia.
  • I added anonymous Kid3 three years ago to the Tag_editor page. Apparently removed because no sequel page existed on Wikipedia.

--Toon van Gerwen (talk) 14:10, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Those are sources that verify that the software exists, but not necessarily that it is notable. I suggest you read WP:RS and remove any sources on this list that do not meet the criteria of being independent, reliable, subject to editorial oversight, not self-published, etc. Wired would be a reliable source.- MrX 14:30, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The list above is not filtered, but I have added the reliable sources to Kid3#Bibliography and Kid3#External links. Is this sufficient? --Ufleisch (talk) 15:59, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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