Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of CPU power dissipation

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. There seems to be a consensus for merging but nowhere to merge to. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:31, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of CPU power dissipation

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Indiscriminate unmaintainable list of information (WP:IINFO), see also WP:SALAT Ipsign (talk) 09:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from nominator: I've spent some time trying to remove WP:SYN from this article, but the more I worked on it, the more I realized that this list doesn't seem to belong to Wikipedia. I won't repeat arguments I've provided in nomination, but should add that as this list is non-discriminative by design, and due to number of CPUs being released, maintaining it in any meaningful shape is not feasible. Ipsign (talk) 09:16, 18 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 02:13, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 02:13, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

merge - As I noted in this proposal Talk:List_of_CPU_power_dissipation/Archive_1#Merger proposal much of the material in this article duplicates information in various Wikipedia articles listing CPUs. So this article is largely duplicate coverage within Wikipedia.

Relevant material here should be added to the lists for appropriate CPUs. The article could be turned into a redirect or disambiguation page (if need the history for provenenace/copyright reasons), or deleted if the related pages already have sufficient information. Zodon (talk) 21:24, 23 September 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) 00:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge - The wattage information is very encyclopedic, but there are already other "List of ..." articles on various CPU groups. Importantly: many of those lists are missing wattage data, so a straight delete would not be beneficial to readers. Merging would be a big job: the other Lists are scattered all around, and adding new data into tables is a pain. It looks like there are over a dozen other lists. But it looks like a merger is the right thing to do for the long run. --Noleander (talk) 06:23, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge - I might have thought the list might have been unmaintainable, but the current state of the list suggests otherwise; there appear to be enough people working on it that its information is relatively up-to-date. Further, unlike guidelines mentioned in WP:SALAT, power dissipation is a useful list. That being said, power dissipation is arguably better handled as just one entry in more comprehensive tables; the case for merging is credible. - Sangrolu (talk) 12:29, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge First of all, Wikipedia is not a semiconductor chip specifications catalog or datasheet depository. So, I do not know if this fits the mission of the site. If after evaluating encyclopedic value, perhaps it should be added in whole or in parts to other existing articles. Cantaloupe2 (talk) 15:51, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.