Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Windows Phone version history

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The result was withdrawn by nominator. LFaraone 00:24, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Windows Phone version history (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Violation of WP:NOTCHANGELOG; it is written in a list/table-based style. I had attempted to rewrite it in such a style earlier, but was blocked due to an apparent requirement of consensus. A similar page was recently deleted as a violation of this policy. ViperSnake151  Talk  14:51, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:10, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:10, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• delete Win-phone is history anyway. History2007 (talk) 21:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, J04n(talk page) 15:23, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep All other major operating systems have a version release history page. The reason provided by History2007 above is also false and prejudiced-- WP is actually the fastest growing OS on the market, has higher market share than Blackberry according to IDC and Kantar (making it the 3rd most-used mobile OS in the world), and has increased its market share ever since WP8 was released. If anything, WP is growing and becoming more relevant every day. Gamer9832 (talk) 00:07, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Version history pages for iOS and Android are identical to that of Windows Phone. These articles are designed to be listed this way. Gamer9832 (talk) 00:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn: My logic was based off the deletion discussion for a similar page for Chrome OS, which successfully cited WP:NOTCHANGELOG, but I also noticed that according to the discussion, it wasn't being updated either. Additionally, somehow the Android and iOS articles don't qualify per what seems to be ignoring all rules combined with assertions that its useful and are prose (but it still looks "Tables or lists of changes", which policy says should be avoided). In a perfect world, List of Ubuntu releases should be the role model for these pages, but no, you just have to write them in a style that technically violates policy just because other stuff exists. Unfortunately, I predict that everyone is going to share this opinion, so I have no choice but to stop. ViperSnake151  Talk  00:23, 24 May 2013 (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.