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Soundcore (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Minor sub-brand of Anker, no need for this to be a separate article. –DMartin 20:55, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ethan Agarwal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This page was previously nominated and deleted less than a month ago. The original nomination by Thilsebatti read: "Fails GNG. Sourcing is largely drawn from primary materials, promotional interviews, and press release–driven coverage tied to the subject’s ventures." I still don't think this guy is notable. You could maybe make an argument that his company Aaptiv is notable, but there's not very much coverage of Agarwal as a person. I'd support a redirect to 2026 California gubernatorial election, unless a page for Aaptiv is created, in which case I'd support a redirect to that page. Also pinging Bearian, who voted in the original discussion, to see if their opinion has changed. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 01:35, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Equiti Group (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Nearly all of the references are WP:CORPTRIV, WP:PRIMARY (court rulings, interviews), or non-WP:RS. The only source that passes all four notability criteria is The Telegraph article. Searching for more of the same-level coverage didn't yield any results. Since multiple such sources are required to establish the subject's notability, I propose to delete this article as non-notable. Vgbyp (talk) 09:33, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vertical blank interrupt (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Disputed PROD, I don't believe this passes WP:GNG. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 00:56, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games and Technology. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 00:56, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment could reasonably be merged to Vertical blanking interval; the concept is actually tremendously important but would mostly be covered in paper books (such as Michael Abrash's Black Book), or long-since-departed blogs and Dr Dobbs' Journal website things. It's not always called the vertical blank interrupt; it might also be called the vertical retrace interrupt or various other synonyms, and it was tremendously important because back in the days before operating systems took over control of everything, if a programmer wanted to do anything with the graphics memory or graphics settings, without creating noise on the screen (because of conflicts between the graphics processing chip and the microprocessor), s/he had to wait for the vertical retrace and start doing things during that time. It was therefore used extensively in nearly all games designed for CRT-displays pre-Windows. Elemimele (talk) 12:34, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. I've added refs to the article; the concept is covered by many 1980s/early 1990s computer graphics books, with several giving quite a bit of detail about how to use VBIs to achieve different effects. It may be worth merging Raster interrupt into this article in the future, though, as the two concepts are essentially the same idea, just for vertical and horizontal sync pulses, and many platforms supported both. Adam Sampson (talk) 19:36, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Adam Sampson: I do feel like there is a heavy WP:OVERLAP with vertical blanking interval as stated above; would you be heavily opposed to merging the two pages and changing your !vote to merge? Similarly, Horizontal blank interrupt could be merged with Horizontal blanking interval, or all just merged into Blanking (video). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 22:14, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    No, I don't think merging these topics with Vertical blanking interval or Blanking (video) would make sense. Those articles are about the concepts as they apply to video standards, not to computer architecture and computer graphics programming - vertical/horizontal blanking interrupts are a separately notable topic from vertical/horizontal blanking, and are covered by different sources and of interest to different readers. (That said, I do think it would probably make sense to have one article for each topic, rather than treating horizontal and vertical separately in both cases.) Adam Sampson (talk) 23:40, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not sure the interval and the interrupt are so separate. The interrupt is just a hardware method to execute code during the interval; discussing the two separately is like discussing saws and sawing in two separate articles. When several people have invested in creating/editing heavily-overlapping articles it does hurt sacrificing someone's text, but we should think from our reader's perspective. Isn't it better for them to get the whole story told properly in one place? A (detailed) paragraph for the interrupt in an article on the interval just works nicely. Elemimele (talk) 07:09, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Canditech (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NCORP. Lacking significant coverage of this company in reliable sources. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 19:02, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. - Amigao (talk) 02:12, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pulsetrain GmbH (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NCORP. Based on a random selection of sources I went through, most are just passing mentions, non-notable awards or funding announcements that fall under WP:CORPTRIV. Correctly disclosed paid creation, but accepted from AfC by a sock. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 23:32, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nai Lee Kalema (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Subject is very early in their academic career (still a PhD candidate, with only 5 publications that have been cited by others). No apparent WP:NPROF pass. As for WP:GNG, sourcing is either primary, non-independent (affiliated with college she attend(ed) or work(ed) for), or does not provide significant coverage (or some combination thereof). I was not able to locate any additional coverage in g-news, g-books, PressReader, or newspapers.com Zzz plant (talk) 12:26, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Atlys (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NCORP and WP:CORPDEPTH. Indian media sources should be viewed carefully, as they often present press releases including product launches, new initiatives, and funding news as news WP:RSNOI, WP:ROUTINE. TC-BT-1C-SI (talk) 06:20, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yantraraja (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Topic already covered in Astrolabe. This is a duplicate article with not enough notability. AtlasDuane (talk) 19:37, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Liberux (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Failed crownfunding campaign on indiegogo, website down, latest and only entry in news section is from 26 April, and no new captures in August, no social media activity since 30 Juni, after a flurry of activity in the months prior. Promised prototype has not been relased. That's what I call a dead parrot. --Johannes Rohr (talk) 06:29, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ColosseoEAS (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Having removed a lot of original research, it's clear the subject of this article fails WP:NCORP. C679 08:16, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wispr Flow (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NCORP. Cited sources are mostly blogs, PR-based articles, funding rounds, launch of products, all come under WP:CORPTRIV. Lacks direct and in-depth articles to pass WP:CORPDEPTH. Gheus (talk) 03:03, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trupeer (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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None of the cited sources pass WP:CORPDEPTH criteria. Most of the cited sources come under WP:NEWSORGINDIA. Fails WP:NCORP. Gheus (talk) 13:25, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CDBurnerXP (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails GNG for not having significant coverage from independent, reliable sources for verification. Cassiopeia talk 09:54, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Znanost.org (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The external links are not enough to show notability - for example although the British Council is a reliable source the link does not say enough about the subject of this article. Also if it is notable why is there no Croatian article? Chidgk1 (talk) 17:26, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AI bubble (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Tried Draft:AI bubble, but it was rejected as some duplicate of AI winter or whatever (oldid). I fail to see how the recently made article is any better than the now-deleted draft and how it's not some duplicate or derivative of AI winter. George Ho (talk) 11:13, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep many reliable sources exist such as Fox News and nbc and the New York Times 2600:4040:2821:D500:CCC7:26A9:B84B:E228 (talk) 17:13, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge: I specifically made the redirect (now moved to Draft:AI bubble) becuase of WP:FUTURE, Wikipedia should not have speculative articles about things that people suspect are happening. I added "With possibilities" merely becuase if it ends up bursting it should become an article. But as of now, an article about a speculative bubble is not appropriate.
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The result was merge‎ to Tachiyomi. (non-admin closure) Left guide (talk) 17:34, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mihon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:SOFTWARE. The article is sourced almost entirely to primary/self-published material. The only third-party mentions located focus on Tachiyomi (the upstream project) rather than this fork. LvivLark (talk) 18:05, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Advanced thermal recycling system (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This is a proprietary technology that lacks information in reliable, independent sources. Without those independent sources I don't believe this article can meet the sourcing requirements to meet verifiability and notability guidelines.

There does not seem to be much difference between this trademarked system and a typical waste-to-energy + materials incineration process. I do not believe a redirect is appropriate in this case as the term is too generic and searching for "advanced thermal recycling" brings up a variety of recycling methods. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 02:31, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MSI Claw A8 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Notability concerns. Written like an ad without demonstrating much independent notability. Go D. Usopp (talk) 12:47, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Merge: this article should be merged with “MSI Claw A1M” under common name “Msi Claw”
GonzalezRio (talk) 05:07, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the potential rather than current state of the article, I see the possibility of both pages being fully fleshed out. I don't think a WP:OVERLAP is there, as they are entirely different systems. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 05:56, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Coforge (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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All the references are not of reliable coverage as they are WP MILL, only covering single routine fund raising or acquiring events. Fails NCORP Jazzbanditto (talk) 11:02, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Benjamin Heywood (entrepreneur) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Lacking sufficient coverage to establish notability. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NBIO - The9Man Talk 10:10, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Added a little more detail in personal life includign citations that may help with that PaulWicks (talk) 19:59, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep - Thanks, I was fuzzy on AFD procedures so apologies for earlier confusion. I've now added references where these were needed; not all are perfect, e.g. Health 2.0 doesn't archive its talks so the best I can do is PLM's own blog. I've fleshed out the references from the New York Times. In terms of notability, I suppose the pitch I'd make would be:
1.) Significant coverage in reliable sources; multiple features in the New York Times & NYT Magazine interview Heywood about his work and family, subject of a documentary premiered at Sundance, subject of a book by a pulitzer prize winning author
2.) Significant award: Within the space of ALS research and advocacy, the Humanitarian award is the highest honour a non-medic can receive. (https://www.als.net/news/jamie-and-benjamin-heywood-receive-humanitarian-award/ / https://www.als.org/blog/hopeful-highlights-recent-als-mnd-symposium) - the International Alliance represents the many global ALS non profits around the world - it's even rarer for the award to go to someone who is not a medical professional.
3.) Founder of a significant company in the health space (PatientsLikeMe) that has been influential in multiple spheres PaulWicks (talk) 08:18, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Gene Hoffman (technology executive) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Pure promotional puff piece, likely generated by AI. The only good source here is an interview, which does not contribute to notability. Unfortunately, we have no room for any more brochures. MediaKyle (talk) 10:17, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Pyjs (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Entirely sourced from primary sources, published by the primary software developer WP:COI (Luke Leighton, aka User: Lkcl). No indication of nobility from reliable, third-party sources. Seems there was only pre-release product version, with the most recent being 0.8.1a, all back in 2012.

Looking at the references, they all fall into the following categories:

  1. Primary source (5 of 6 ref are to the website of the project)
  2. A single listing on an external website about a presentation the software author is giving.

For transparency I recently removed the following "broken" reference links from the page: (diff)

  1. A link to a broken "google group" -- forums are not reliable sources for establishing notability.
  2. A link to a broken github page (a primary source anyways)
  3. A directory listing site at sourceforge, redirecting to the current project site
  4. A very broken archive.org link, no idea on the content, but no way to rescue it either, but based on the ref tag, it appears to be self-published content.

Looking at google search using the project website[15] shows nothing to establish notabiliity aside from it being a small open source project with no sigcov.

It does look like it was maybe slightly more known under its former name, Pyjamas. But after it was renamed to pyjs, there is no SIGCOV for this new name, making it perhaps a bad WP:NAMECHANGE.

It is clear that Pyjamas did exist and was used, and is known about -- it has been referenced in "directory style" listings - both small and large, however, WP:NINI applies here. What is at question is if there are any reliable, third-party sources talking about this project that make it notable aside from any other open-source project with authors who are interested in self-promotion.

There was a prior AfD at [[16]] that NAC closed as keep, although a fresh look at the arguments presented, and the number of non-qualifying votes (SPA, etc), makes the outcome questionable at least.

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  • As a developer who was using pyjamas back when, I'd like to add that there was some definite controversy involved in the project. It was an up-and-coming light-weight alternative to GWT and had real momentum before experiencing a "hostile fork", described by some as a hijack[1]. The infrastructure and project identity were taken over without the original lead developer’s consent, leading to a collapse of both the original and forked efforts. This dramatic turn of events is arguably the most historically significant aspect of the project, and one that deserves documentation. I strongly support keeping the article for historical and archival purposes, and would encourage expanding it with sourced details about the fork and its impact. From (talk) 22:10, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Some very interesting backstory, and something I wasn't able to track down... A few follow-up questions, based on what you provided: (1) can you provide multiple reliable source reporting on the controversy; (2) does that mean that pyjs is a fork of Pyjammas -- and thus should not inherit the possible notability of the base code. It seems like Luke was trying to claim "ownership" of Pyjs, when it sounds like it wasn't so much of a rename, as rather someone else forked it, and move the project forward without him, but he is still trying to claim fame for it? Are their reliable sources to back up those claims? It is ironic that Luke appears to have suffered from this on his other projects like Libre-SOC and even some of that spilling over in his behavioral issues on here. It would seem that if Pyjs is a fork, and Pyjammas is really the notable project, perhaps it should be moved back to Pyjammas, and Pyjs be left only as a relatively small part of the history? TiggerJay(talk) 04:03, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @From - just checking to see if you have any reliable sources regarding those statements? Also as someone who used Pyjamas "back when" and hasn't contributed on Wikipedia for over 7 years, can you help me understand how you became aware of this discussion? Forgive the accusation tone, but it is just astonishing that you'd simply stumble into this. Thanks! TiggerJay(talk) 02:41, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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GR8 Tech (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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AFD recently closed by a blocked editor (who owns a series of accounts that were used for Keep discussions). AlanRider78 (talk) 14:27, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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pinging previous + current discussion participants @Gheus @Norlk @Amlikdi @Linkusyr @Chippla360 @Ramos1990 @AlanRider78 @Jungle archer Oreocooke (talk) 22:31, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]