Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EAS3

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 no consensus. kur ykh 05:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

EAS3

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Reference review:

Official website- Reliable source, not independent of the subject.
Sourceforge- Reliable source, trivial.

I can't find significant coverage for this software. Joe Chill (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Joe Chill (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, weakly, per nomination. This is university developed software described as a software toolkit for reading and writing structured binary data with geometry information and for postprocessing of these data. It is meant to exchange floating-point data according to IEEE standard between different computers, to modify them or to convert them into other file formats. This doesn't seem to be a commercial product, and may be valuable and important, but I don't see any google scholar hits that are obviously relevant, and the article lacks sufficient context to explain any importance to the ordinary reader. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I do find significant coverage in this article. However I have to admit that links to related file formats are missing. I'll change that in a second. EAS3 is one of the few file formats and computational libraries that enable you to read and write large binary data fiels, independent of the endianess of your machine. Therefore, it is as significant as CGNS and netCDF---even though it is roots are a little bit older i think. Concerning the Hits in Google scholar---you will always get hits unrelated to EAS3 because it's a three letter abbreviation you are searching for like "jpg". Anyway, nobody writes down in his publication which file format (eg. netCDF, CGNS, EAS3 or whatever) he or she has used to store his data or perform a Fourier analysis. Therefore, I think that google scholar hits are not relevant for a discussion about deleting this page. Marcus Zengl 19:02, 15. Jan 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 18:02, 15 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Keep As mentioned by Marcus, you will hardly find references to used software within scientific publications (you may find at least some in this bunch of abbreviations if you include the word simulation [1]). However this is also the case for other file formats (CGNS, NETCDF, ...) and probably one wouldn't delete these - otherwise we wouldn't have many articles dealing with scientific software. Older verions of EAS were used for the first spatial Direct Numerical Simulations and the current version is used for example within benchmark codes of the PRACE project - so relevance is given. --Babucke (talk) 22:11, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Fails general notability guidelines. JBsupreme (talk) 23:13, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: references (with the limitations described above) were mentioned and added to the article. --Babucke (talk) 10:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:28, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Articles about scientific software may not be of interest to many Wikipedia readers, but for those who need a particular kind of software, this article and articles like it are crucial for filling a need. --DThomsen8 (talk) 22:40, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Google news, I search for its name plus the word "software". One promising result which Google says is a valid news source is [2] which has promising things to say of the software. Dream Focus 18:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: that article is referring to PowerBuilder Enterprise Application Server version 3, aka PowerBuilder EAS3. Not the same thing at all. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 01:36, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I just don't see how it passes WP:GNG. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 01:46, 24 January 2010 (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.