Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enlightenment (software)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) KCVelaga (talk) 00:18, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Enlightenment (software)

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Not notable; mentioned in reviews in unreliable sources and otherwise only passing mentions. Declined PROD. wumbolo ^^^ 09:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. —AE (talk • contributions) 10:01, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. —AE (talk • contributions) 10:01, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Notable Window manager, mostly for RedHat based versions of linux. Sample sources [1] [2] PaleAqua (talk) 19:17, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The two sources you listed rely on press releases and primary sources. When citing interviews for notability, we should judge how much information was provided outside of the actual interview. And in these articles, that information is very minor, as most of the information was provided by press releases and primary sources. wumbolo ^^^ 19:43, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Neither is a press release and it is reasonable for news articles to link to primary sources in their coverage. In case you are not familiar Ars Technica is part of Condé Nast's Wired Digital group and is a well known tech news site with good journalistic practices and tends to be more on the technical side. The reason that I listed the first link instead of a more in-depth article is that key point in it was the Ars had covered Enlightenment before and continued to. A follow up article for example a few months later [3]. The reason I picked ZDNet as the second sample was the it is a news organization on the less technical side of the spectrum from Ars Technica. If the ZDNet article that points out how well E17 was known for being delayed wasn't enough there are numerous other articles about the software such as [4]. Also note depending on the time frame when searching for sources it might be necessary to search for terms like E17 and E22 as unfortunately naming products with common words makes normal searching difficult. A few more possible results from bing news: [5] - a review on Softpedia, [6] criticisms of Enlightenment on technewsworld. Some bing results are indirect mentions like [7][8][9], which by themselves do not add to notability but the number of mentions does indicate how well known Enlightenment was at the time. PaleAqua (talk) 07:19, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Its been around since 1997 and subject to reviews from time to time; generally seems known as a lightweight window manager. but to be fair reviewers seem initially to have liked it and then found found issues. Implausible not further reviews from time to time. Latest version seems to be building relations to Tizen. I've added some references to talk. Probably to unstable to give significant merge to another article, best left as keep but needs serious re-write.Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:37, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep this has been around forever, is discussed in books such as [10] and [11], and is still discussed today [12]. power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:12, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – this was the main window manager on Linux for years. While it's not very active anymore, that doesn't mean we get rid of it. There are plenty of sources available per above. Brad v 23:43, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Meets WP:GNG with sources from PaleAqua and Power~enwiki. — Newslinger talk 02:39, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep failure to do WP:BEFORE. Widefox; talk 19:03, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and BAN User:Wumbolo from any further Wikipedia editing or deletion requests. Eradicate those in the anti-information army! 206.169.91.66 (talk) 23:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC) — 206.169.91.66 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

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