Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enhanced Machine Controller
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An unremarkable software package. It has no third-party references to support notability. Borderline advert. Wizard191 (talk) 14:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Gee, your way off base here. This is an open source project and is a very remarkable software and is activity being developed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.65.78.60 (talk) 14:22, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
We believe we have over 3000 users worldwide using this software. It is hard to count, as many of them never contact us once they are up and running. I sell hardware that is supported by EMC2, and have sold close to 200 of these systems.
*Weak delete. I think this could definitely be notable in the future as development continues- and as more refs come available from the tech press- but for now, unless someone can provide independent refs (which I could not find in a cursory I-search) it should go. The Eskimo (talk) 14:43, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- Keep I am okay with the refs now added. The Eskimo (talk) 19:56, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
EMC was first moved into the public in 1997, I was the second user outside of NIST. I have been using it in my shop since 1998. So, it has over a decade of history.
EMC is a very influential software package that is the grandfather of many machine controls and other machine control systems that is based on it. It has a large user base and a diverse development community. I would not consider deleting this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ichudov (talk • contribs) 14:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:05, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- Strong keep This is an active open source project which is a continuation of a successful NIST development effort. It has continuing support from NIST [1]. There are plenty of GScholar and GBooks references to the project. Did the nominator even look for them? It is expected that nominators will supply available third party references instead of nominating AfD. — HowardBGolden (talk) 16:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- Strong keep did the nominator read the guidelines for nominating AfD. the article is new and just growing, its about a well established opensource project archivist (talk) 17:35, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- A brief search on google-scholar returns at least 20+ scientific journal papers and conference proceedings in which the architecture of EMC is discussed, and in which EMC or EMC2 has been enhanced, modified, or used. I have added these to the references section of the article. I'm also told the EMC project has strong links to Robocrane, for which there are many more third-party references available. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.27.61.165 (talk) 19:40, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- keep: EMC is an influential Open Source package that has been used in the manufacturing industry in the US, Europe, and around the world (Argentina, Middle East, Vietnam). It has a dedicated user and developer community on http://sourceforge.net/projects/emc/ and http://linuxcnc.org . The article is a work in progress---it started without references and attributions, which was probably the weakness that prompted Wizard191's criticism; this is being addressed in the current version. Current tally has several keeps and strong keeps; could Wizard191 please reevaluate?
- Strong keep Not mentioned here is the very active IRC channel on #freenode The log (found here http://www.linuxcnc.org/irc/irc.freenode.net:6667/emc/) dates back to 2004.