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::::I don't have to make a case for saving this article; I only have to show that this AfD should be closed as a Keep because the reasoning in your AfD is flawed. I do understand how that happened because the article isn't GAN material... but an article that needs improvement is not an article that must be deleted. Renaming this article might well attract some new editors to work on it. I propose "Backup (VB.NET multithreading explained)" because it is about both the backup utility and multithreaded programming. Just like that Hello World is about both that program and the programming language in which it is implemented... explaining the syntax of the PL --[[User:DeVerm|DeVerm]] ([[User talk:DeVerm|talk]]) 04:25, 16 July 2011 (UTC).
:::::So your proposal is that we we make this article about two topics so that we can shoehorn in a topic with notability problems? That does not seem to fit in with Wikipedia structure. And no, the [[Hello world program]] article you linked to is not both about the program and explaining the syntax of any programming language. The article says that Hello World programs are used to explain the syntax, but the article itself does not explain the syntax of program languages. And the Hello world program does not have the notability problems that appear to be at play here. --[[User:NatGertler|Nat Gertler]] ([[User talk:NatGertler|talk]]) 06:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
:::::Your interpretation of the Hello World article is not correct IMO. I read this:
::::::Using this simple program as a basis, computer science principles or elements of a specific programming language can be explained to novice programmers. Experienced programmers learning new languages can also gain a lot of information about a given language's syntax and structure from a hello world program.
:::::This is the opposite of what you claim it is --[[User:DeVerm|DeVerm]] ([[User talk:DeVerm|talk]]) 13:45, 16 July 2011 (UTC).
I find your point about the number of downloads quite irrelavent in that the article is a classic example of multithreading coding in VB.NET using Object Oriented Programming. If your focus is emperical then consider the article has been viewed nearly 81,000 times. It teaches "multithreading" in VB.NET. Just like "hello world" but more advanced teaching on multithreading and VB.NET. The article is the subject, the Backup program is the by-product. And like most good definitions the article and subject teaching separates itself from more classic examples by the fact that it is demonstratable with a useful program called "Backup". This is absolutely essential when defining and teaching a concept like multithreading, OOP and VB.NET. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Howartthou|Howartthou]] ([[User talk:Howartthou|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Howartthou|contribs]]) 22:50, 15 July 2011 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:It seems there is a lack of clarity about what the subject of the Wikipedia article is supposed to be.
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