Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP

Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP

The article is more suitable for a PC magazine than an encyclopedia, and here I do not mean due to its lack of sources or inappropriate tone. Any relevant info, if any, should be placed in the appropriate article, as, like I've said before, the subject of the article is more suitable for a magazine than an encyclopedia. This is not only for this article, but for many others of the same 'nature'. diego_pmc (talk) 11:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I really don't see the point of this article. Ignoring all the opinions, all that is left is a collection of miscellaneous facts about the operating systems that can be found at their respective articles. Rilak (talk) 12:09, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete and possible merge: This subject has been written on by many sources but there are two problems. Firstly, it is poorly referenced leading to a suspicion of OR. The second problem is that any comparison between two things involves a choice of which two things to compare which is more or less arbitrary. We don't need or want hundreds of articles like Comparison of OS/2 and BeOS. It could be countered that comparing an OS to its predecessor version is worthwhile but that seems to be core content for its article, not a separate article. Provided it can be referenced, some of the content here could be merged into Windows Vista. --DanielRigal (talk) 17:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - it just the sort of useful article that an encyclopedia should contain. It is a sufficiently large and separate subject that it should be split off from the Vista and XP articles. That the article might be poorly written is not grounds for its deletion, only its rewriting. This is hardly a comparison of two arbitrary operating systems as Comparison of OS/2 and BeOS would be - these are the most widely used desktop operating systems and one is the successor of the other. There are other articles of a similar sort which I have personally found useful (and so others probably have too since I am not unusual), for example Comparison of Linux distributions and Comparison of BSD operating systems and so it is likely that this one is also useful. Jll (talk) 09:54, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 20:48, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]