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The result was merge to OpenPOWER Foundation. (non-admin closure) Left guide (talk) 01:16, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
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Libre-SOC is effectively vaporware: a hardware project that was started in 2019, and as of 2024 as listed on the article and per its project designer, is "effectively terminated".[1] The designer, User:Lkcl is a COI editor who created the page. All on page references can be categorized as either being:
- primary sources (official website, press-releases, blogs from COI, directory listings, etc); or
- WP:NINI (a presentation given at OpenPOWER Foundation).
There is only one (presumably) independent source, a tech writer and programmer named Michael Larabel with the website phoronix.com which has written about this project a couple of times [2] [3][4]. However, given the ad-laden website, this would seem to fail as a reliable source, and lean more towards an unreliable blog. As a failed project that does not have any reliable sources, and the only non-primary reference is a blog news site from an individual editor, it is hard to establish notability here. TiggerJay (talk) 01:32, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Products and Technology. TiggerJay (talk) 01:32, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:01, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to OpenPOWER Foundation - I was already considering a WP:BLAR to that ___location, but you beat me to it. I believe that foundation itself is notable. It gets mentioned in a few books, although it is a little marginal. This abandoned project, however, is not independently notable. Everything that needs to be said about it can (and mostly is) said on that page already. We could add a sentence that it has now been abandoned, which is about all we can include from this page, since all the sourcing is primary and no product will emerge. It is not nothing - the project was an interesting one - but it falls well short of notability for its own article. To be clear, whilst technically a merge, the merged content here will be minimal. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:53, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- I would support BLAR'ing as an alternative to deleting -- if the correct amount of weight was applied. It seems like while Libre-SOC was a member of that organization, and this presentation was given at one of their conferences, it is only one of 388 videos on their YouTube channel, and one of nearly 350 members of the organization. As such, at most it would seem that only one or two sentences should be made in reference to Libre in the target article. TiggerJay (talk) 20:23, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, agreed. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:33, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- I would support BLAR'ing as an alternative to deleting -- if the correct amount of weight was applied. It seems like while Libre-SOC was a member of that organization, and this presentation was given at one of their conferences, it is only one of 388 videos on their YouTube channel, and one of nearly 350 members of the organization. As such, at most it would seem that only one or two sentences should be made in reference to Libre in the target article. TiggerJay (talk) 20:23, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to OpenPOWER Foundation - I agree completely with Sirfurboy🏄. Suriname0 (talk) 17:56, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to OpenPOWER Foundation per User:Sirfurboy. Caleb Stanford (talk) 19:13, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment due to overwhelming support here for a BLAR, I have gone ahead and boldly merged what is probably an appropraite (or slightly more than due weight) content over, and propose that it be reviewed
and then we can move forward with a simple redirect. TiggerJay (talk) 03:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)- Thanks for merging content. I think we should still wait for the AfD close before creating the redirect, since we are here, and the page contains an AfD header, and since a BLAR can be undone by any editor, but a consensus at AfD is stronger. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:01, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
- Agreed, struck redirect until after AfD is complete. TiggerJay (talk) 17:07, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for merging content. I think we should still wait for the AfD close before creating the redirect, since we are here, and the page contains an AfD header, and since a BLAR can be undone by any editor, but a consensus at AfD is stronger. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:01, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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