Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WinDOS

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 delete. Besides sockpuppet issues, most of those in favor of keeping the article seem to misunderstand the article and/or what AfD is intended to determine. --MCB 04:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WinDOS

Note to closing admin: I suspect sockpuppetry on this AfD. All the keep voters (and article author) edit certain obscure categories and do racist vandalism. SchmuckyTheCat 17:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone else thinks similarly Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Nintendude SchmuckyTheCat 22:36, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

OK; this term gets 1M google hits. Also, it seems to be a common term.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nintendough (talk • contribs).

• Keep for awareness of word coinage being mass-known. --Nintendough 19:22, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• If you want to contest a {{prod}}, just remove it, you don't need to escalate to AfD. Anyway, redirect to Windows Microsoft Windows; the content fails WP:NOR/WP:NEO due to lack of any sources. Linking to Google Search results is not a reliable source. The Google hits indicate that this word is used in all kinds of ways. Sandstein 20:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect due to ghits. (I see the word it for the first time, though). Pavel Vozenilek 23:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: if you redirect it, include the term "WinDOS" in whatever article it redirects to. --Nintendough 03:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• delete and do not redirect nobody uses this term in the way the article describes. The top 60 google search results are for sets of scripting tools, emulators, other software packages, and (damnit), this article is mirrored already) that have nothing to do with a portmanteau of Windows and DOS. Also, this article was written by a new user whose other contributions were writing "NIGGER POOP" repeatedly in other articles. The only reason this wasn't speedy deleted is that the author wrote coherent sentences making it not patent nonsense, even though it is. SchmuckyTheCat 04:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. WinDOS is part of GNU Pascal, and there was an MSDN Journal article([1]) in 1991 about the "WINDOS library", but it'd be a stretch to say that either of these merits its own article. I poked around and it seems that "Windos" appears most often as a misspelling of Windows, so there may be some merit in creating a misspelling redirection for "Windos", but not for "WinDOS". -/- Warren 19:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. DOS programs are often run when using Windows. So, some people may have coined the term "WinDOS" to describe that. --YDK500 13:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

then there would be reliable sources that say that. Which don't exist. Also, you seem to have the same editing pattern as Nintendough, who already voted. SchmuckyTheCat 15:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I am a veteran DOS user; and I still play old DOS programs on Windows XP. So, This can be a keeper. --Clarenceville Trojan 16:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

So, you have a source that says it was ever used in the way the article describes? SchmuckyTheCat 16:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 03:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

• Merge with either Windows or DOS --¿¡Exir Kamalabadi!? 04:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism. The word gets so many Google hits probably because there is a specific software utility/package/library/whatever with this name and because it is a common misspelling of "windows", not because it is used as the article describes. eaolson 04:16, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The article's primary assertion is factually inaccurate. Microsoft has always referred to their implementation of DOS as MS-DOS --RoninBK_ETC 04:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the entire content of this article is a) the incorrect claim that MS has ever systematically used this term, and b) a tedious explanation of its obvious source. Opabinia regalis 05:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Microsoft Windows. In my experience (as an IT professional on NT servers) the term was not used by Microsoft or MS-certified people but as a casual shorthand by Unix and Mac people. It's little more than a dicdef, in that respect. --Dhartung | Talk 06:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or redirect to Microsoft Windows. Does not need its own article. JIP | Talk 09:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Fails WP:V. Delete as protologism, and do not redirect. -- The Anome 11:22, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Neologism. Xdenizen 01:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep! Wikipedia has been delte happy as of late and I fear that many contributor's hard work will discourage participants and will detract from our ability to catalog human knowledge, the purpose of an encyclopedia. Cheers, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 03:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

That has what to do with the total falseness of this article and Wikipedia verifiability policies? SchmuckyTheCat 03:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

A couple of others seem to want to keep it . . . so, why not improve it, rather than destroy others' work when obviously some people are interested in this article? Take care! --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 03:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per "The Cat"'s sockpuppetry allegation. Mostly the article is just too stubby to matter. It's probably just something to merge elsewhere. Anomo 03:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as the whole article is based on a dubious claim. Note that the creator and one of the keep votes have been blocked indefinitely for vandalism. Pascal.Tesson 03:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

• Hmmm The vandalism started on the account YDK500 with an opposession with feces and I did find in there, "The Diarrhea Song" which I wondered since childhood the lyrics. Great article and I think it should be featured. Anyway YDK500 then did this "NIGGER POOP" crapflood vandalism. Then Nintendough did "NIGGER POOP" vandalism and got banned, too. I think they're both the same person.

• Note: None of my contributions are anything like YDK500 or any of the other users who repeat racist words in articles. But, I still think we should keep since this term gets 100K+ hits on google. Also, Clarenceville Trojan is a relatively faithful editor too. --Nintendough 20:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Dictdef, not verified, questionable term. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 20:24, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect with/to Microsoft Windows as it is an older and commonly used term for PC Computing not associated with Linux or other non-microsoft OS Robovski 01:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; DOS is a popular operating system for old games. --Livonia Mall 20:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; except this is a legitimate vote. Because this term is in rampant use by informal DOS and Windows users. --Nisa's Grand Am 01:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

  Comment The AfD process is not a vote. It is a debate. Robovski 02:08, 11 November 2006 (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.