Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FreeMind: Difference between revisions

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:* Don't worry too much that the AfD nomination was made. AfD discussions are about consensus over whether Wikipedia policies and guidelines support deletion of the article, not a straight-up vote. The closing admin will look at whether consensus was reached and who made the most convincing policy-related statements. This one appears to be on course to survive. Thanks for the references. I added the MacWorld ref to the article due to your submission. The Innovation Tools ref was already in the article. The LinuxMag ref requires a login so I skipped it. (I had found that in my search too.) The #4 and #5 refs look like blogs, which aren't good enough to be [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] so I had to skip those. So one new reliable source (MacWorld) is still quite helpful. I also added an additional reference from a Fox Business News article. So this article has risen well above any claim of being unsourced. [[User:Ikluft|Ikluft]] ([[User talk:Ikluft|talk]]) 09:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

*'''Keep'''. Enough reliable sources have been presented to provide notability. [[User:Phil Bridger|Phil Bridger]] ([[User talk:Phil Bridger|talk]]) 11:02, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

*'''Keep''', of course. I'm shocked someone could even regard [[FreeMind]] as ''not'' notable, when it's the '''first''' [[Open Source]] and [[Cross-platform|cross-platform]] [[mind mapping]] software out there. It has ''always'' been open source and cross-platform (since the project's start in 2000), and in that category has only been joined late last year by an Open Source ''version'' of [[XMind]] (which even has support for importing FreeMind files but doesn't have the full functionality of the non-free "Pro" version). There are some other (newer) Open Source mind mapper projects (like for instance [http://code.google.com/p/labyrinth/ Labyrinth]), but these are not cross-platform. FreeMind stands out as the first completely Open Source, completely cross-platform mind mapping software. If that isn't notable enough, then we can add that in February 2006 it was [http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-02.php Project of the Month] at [[SourceForge.net]] before being nominated for [http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/technology/sourceforgenet-names-finalists-community-choice-awards/ Best Project] in SourceForge's Community Choice Awards for 2008. Others have already referred to numbers of downloads and the variety of other software that supports FreeMind. --[[User:JavaWoman|JavaWoman]] ([[User talk:JavaWoman|talk]]) 11:28, 2 February 2009 (UTC)