Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mousepad (software)

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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 merge to Xfce#Applications. Closing admins tag for merge, they do not perform the merge. MBisanz talk 03:07, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Since WP:Notability (software) is now defunct, software falls under the product inclusion criteria, which says that a product should not have its own article unless it has significant outside coverage (which this doesn't). It says that if it fails that, then it should be included in its parent company's article. Since this one was written by a single dude (who doesn't have a WP article on him), there's nothing to include this under... Unless you count Xfce as its parent company. But you can't, because Xfce didn't make it, they just included it in their software package. TLDR version: It fails its notability criteria. flaminglawyer 03:04, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback. However, that criteria seems meant to apply to commercial products and services. Mousepad isn't just a product, and it wasn't "just included" in Xfce. It is the default text editor of Xfce. In fact, you could say that Xfce produced Mousepad, since they list it on their Projects page, and the original author appears to have been or is a significant member of the Xfce developer community, judging by his participation on the Xfce forum. In fact, every maintainer listed in the latest source control records have xfce.org e-mail addresses.
There's a Wikipedia category called "Category:Free_text_editors", listing several other editors that are of no greater significance to the open source software community. I noted the omission of Mousepad in the list of default editors on the List_of_text_editors page, and that's where I added it first. Then it seemed reasonable to go ahead and create the article, since several of the others in that list have one. Consider the article for KWrite. Conceivably, someone with more knowledge of Mousepad than I have could enhance the Mousepad article to provide at least as much information as the one for KWrite currently does, such as a complete list of features. It's hard to understand why that should be discouraged by removing the nascent Mousepad article. User talk:Jakewan —Preceding undated comment was added on 04:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC).[reply]
  • Merge as above; makes sense as part of main Xfce page. Dialectric (talk) 14:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge; I really like the idea of a separate List of Xfce software page. There are enough individual projects shown on the official Projects page, and even more at the Goodies site, that including it all on the main Xfce page might be too dominating of that space. Does that make sense? I'm new to contributing on Wikipedia and I really do just want to make it right, and I appreciate this discussion. User:Jakewan 17:02, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I see there is such a page, just with incorrect capitalization in its title: List of XFCE applications User:Jakewan 17:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi! I'm Erik Harrison. I'm kinda indifferent to whether or not there is an article on a piece of software I wrote - I'm certainly no expert on Wikipedia or it's notability guidelines. But as long as a third party is putting up information about me in one of the comprehensive collection of all human knowledge, I just want to mention that I'm single, I cook, and am an alternately wild and tender lover. -Erik —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.89.125.69 (talk) 19:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well done. Thanks a lot for the guidance! User:Jakewan 15:50, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Given that the article is currently the subject of a 'rescue'/improvement attempt, such a merge should be done again by the closing admin if closing as delete. Cynical (talk) 21:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Default text editor in the third most common desktop environment on a major operating system. It is capable of being brought up to standard given sufficient time to find WP:RS (given that it's open source, there are a lot of non-reliable blogs to wade through in search results). Cynical (talk) 21:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge as per above --Unionhawk (talk) 13:11, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per above. --Sloane (talk) 18:53, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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