Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seahorse (JavaScript library)

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 delete. Courcelles (talk) 01:08, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seahorse (JavaScript library) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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Non-notable software product. Proposed deletion denied by article's author (who appears also to be the software's author) with no edit summary or other discussion. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 16:23, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. ——Korath (Talk) 19:19, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Initial release: July 1, 2010... come back when the software is actually being used. It's highly unlikely that someone, in just two weeks, has noticed your project, downloaded it, studied the tutorial and has actually used the library in some web project. Even so, we require reliable sources to establish notability, which are lacking too. Wikipedia is not a place to promote new software. - Simeon (talk) 08:51, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Is there anything that can be said about the history of the proprietary software prior to being open sourced? (source). Is/was it used by big companies back then? If sources with significant coverage regarding that can be found, the software could be notable. - Simeon (talk) 09:07, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Only if there is any evidence that the software was actually widely used prior to being taken to open source. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 10:57, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment It should be noted by those looking into this topic that there are at least three separate projects at SourceForge going by the name of SeaHorse:

• The subject of this article is the project located at http://seahorsejs.sourceforge.net/
• There is a second JavaScript add-on library also using the name SeaHorse at http://jseahorse.sourceforge.net/
• There is a third SeaHorse project at http://seahorse.sourceforge.net/ that describes itself as a "Gnome front end for GnuPG".

This profusion of SeaHorses is likely to cause a great deal of confusion. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 11:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Of these, the third one has an article on Wikipedia: Seahorse (software). - Simeon (talk) 04:07, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Not sure that one deserves an article either -- it is unreferenced and does not show any particular signs of notability either. But that's a problem for a different AFD. (See WP:OSE). WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 11:56, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, I can find no significant coverage in reliable sources. --Nuujinn (talk) 21:06, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. JBsupreme (talk) ✄ ✄ ✄ 22:47, 19 July 2010 (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.