Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software for engineers

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. Sango123 20:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If this list were anywhere near complete, it would be staggeringly huge. More detailed categories already exist, and are self-maintaining. Trevyn 10:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete List cruft galore. 205.157.110.11 11:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep (although Engineering software might be better for a title) - please see WP:LIST if you don't understand the purpose of lists, but they cannot be replace by categories. Please stop making that silly argument. WilyD 13:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, if there was a list of software for a certain type of engineer work it would be acceptable, but this list is basically trying to include every piece of software an engineer would ever need. The first entry is Microsoft Word, of all things. WilyD, that would be a valid argument if they were just trying to replace the article with a cat, but in this case it's just a really shitty article. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 14:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • AfD is not cleanup. Thus I am forced to reject This article needs cleaning as a grounds for deletion. WilyD 15:12, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as article tries to be a HOWTO article, which Wikipedia is not. The lack of specificity and the nonsensical inclusion of bog-standard 99%-saturation software like Word is just icing on the cake. --Dhartung | Talk 16:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, no need for another meaningless giant list. Pavel Vozenilek 19:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Engineer is a fairly broad term - if you include electrical and software engineers in the list, then most of the existing corpus of software would qualify (especially most of the free and open source software). I wouldn't have a problem with the list if it was very specialized (Software for Civil Engineers, Software for Mechanical Engineers), but just plain Engineers is too vague, too big, and too hard to manage. Heck, even a category would be huge. Simply unmaintainable. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 02:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Dhartung and CosmicPenguin. Michael Kinyon 06:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete will be indiscriminate and mammoth. RN 05:58, 11 September 2006 (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.