Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barry (software)

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The result was withdrawn. (non-admin closure) RadioFan (talk) 13:42, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barry (software)

Not clear how this open source software project meets notability guidelines. Provided references dont mention the project (one reference is to a how-to post in a linux forum and the other to a technical description of the protocol this software is based around), nothing to indicate its notability. RadioFan (talk) 15:32, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks RadioFan, however I cannot find any information on syncing a Blackberry with a GNU/Linux (or similar) operating system without requiring Barry libraries or other Barry software components. I can find many external pages describing how to use Barry (and I am happy to add them if you think it will help), but nothing definitively saying "there is no other software that can do this" (despite it seemingly being the case), which I assume is the sort of thing you are saying we would ideally reference? Boltronics (talk) 05:42, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Notability here isn't determined by how unique something is but rather whether it meets notability guidelines. The specific problem here is a lack of reliable sources that cover this software in any depth. I can find a number of forum posts that mention it but those dont meet Wikipedia's reliability requirements. If you had some newspaper or magazine articles (maybe in Linux Magazine or Linux Journal) that would help. Unfortunately the word "Barry" is very common making searching for sources here challenging.--RadioFan (talk) 12:54, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good thinking. I've got a Linux Journal subscription actually, and since they've gone digital I've got all the old issues. I'll try to find time tomorrow to see if I can dig something up. --Boltronics (talk) 18:02, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:23, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I grepped through my 1.3Gb PDF/epub collection of Linux Journal - every issue since 132 (where 210 is the latest). Was a bit time consuming since Paul Barry is the name of one of the editors. My searches didn't turn up anything though - even for "blackberry" (case insensitive) - however a lot of the text in those PDFs are not in an encoding that can be found by grep, so would need to look at them closer to be sure. Not easy. I might need to have a play with pdftk to see if that can make life easier, but I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow night for a week. Boltronics (talk) 13:32, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be willing to move this article under your user area so that you may bring it up to notability standards without fear of it being removed. Once there are sufficient reliable sources in there, it could be moved back. Does that work for you?--RadioFan (talk) 15:42, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. Would appreciate that. Boltronics (talk) 08:28, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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