Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Macintosh software (3rd nomination)

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 Keep per concensus. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 03:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Macintosh software (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Wikipedia is not a list of loosely associated topics. This list serves little purpose, especially since there is already a category page for Macintosh software, and this page does nothing more than list a number of them, which could be construed as saying that the listed programs are more important that other ones. If someone wants to search for Mac programs, there are better places than Wikipedia, as the article even states, but even the category page here would be more complete than this. Althepal (talk) 04:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep This seems like a perfectly reasonable list, in accordance with WP:LISTS and WP:CLN. Klausness (talk) 13:12, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep considering how there's lists of software for other computer platforms, why should the Mac be excluded? ArcAngel (talk) 14:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep per WP:LISTS and WP:CLN. Categories do not replace lists. Celarnor (talk) 18:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep Why would this one be up for deletion when other list articles such as List of proprietary software for Linux and List of Amiga games stlll exist? Connectionfailure (talk) 02:52, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete as redundant with superior current subcategories in Category:Mac OS software and Category:Mac OS X software and the way the current list deals with two different separate OSes (Mac OS X and Mac OS) with major architectural differences that prevent the list being useful. -Halo (talk)
• Keep per the WP:CLN and WP:LISTS guidelines. The Macintosh platform is certainly notable enough, and considering how other platforms have lists for software, it ought to be kept. It might not be the best list, but a category couldn't replace it. --JamieS93 14:19, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep, very valuable resource. Enobeno (talk) 20:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. The list is handyDrjem3 (talk) 03:22, 18 March 2008 (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.