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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 07:51, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
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Fails WP:GNG, zero usage outside of the person who coined the term (Göran Calås in [1]), who also seems to be the person who created this article. There's one sentence about RATF in [2] but that's about it for independent coverage.
This was deproded by User:Sangjiinhwa with a suggestion to merge with Rational Unified Process, but a merge is not appropriate: RATF is not mentioned in that article and we would need much better independent sourcing to support such a mention. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 07:38, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 07:38, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Delete. There is not much information about this online, I only really saw was uh... inappropriate stuff, especially on the news. ~Rafael! (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 17:57, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Already PROD'd so not eligible for a Soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 07:12, 9 August 2025 (UTC)- Merge. Since RATF is a methodological extension of Rational Unified Process (RUP) with some original content, merging into a RUP-related article could preserve the info while avoiding notability issues in a standalone article.Sweetabena (talk) 07:37, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- Any mention in Rational unified process would be WP:UNDUE. We need at least some secondary, independent coverage, not written by the original authors, that explicitly describes RATF as an extension of RUP to justify a mention there, but there is only one sentence of independent coverage, which is "
Another method for robustness analysis is introduced by [27], which presents RATF, a method for combining robustness analysis and technology forecasting.
" (source: [3]) This sentence doesn't even connect RATF to RUP, so the source doesn't support a mention in the RUP article. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:05, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
- Any mention in Rational unified process would be WP:UNDUE. We need at least some secondary, independent coverage, not written by the original authors, that explicitly describes RATF as an extension of RUP to justify a mention there, but there is only one sentence of independent coverage, which is "
- Merge. Since RATF is a methodological extension of Rational Unified Process (RUP) with some original content, merging into a RUP-related article could preserve the info while avoiding notability issues in a standalone article.Sweetabena (talk) 07:37, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 20:51, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- Delete due to lack of coverage and do not mention at rational unified process. The topic has received no academic coverage outside of the original article. Caleb Stanford (talk) 21:09, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
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