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The result was delete. — Scientizzle 17:30, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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This article seems to lack notability and seems to violate WP:NOTDIR and/or WP:IINFO. It also seems to contain original research. Why is it important to have Windows box separate from Microsoft Windows and computer case? It's only Internet/techie slang, and a box doesn't have to be Windows: you could have a Linux box, a UNIX box, a Mac box, etc.. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 03:58, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to microsoft windows. The difference between an OS and a computer running the OS is too subtle for the wikipedia and can be covered at microsfot windows; most of the features of the OS appear on running hardware anyway.- Wolfkeeper 05:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - I agree with the above and I think WP:NEO is also a relevant policy here. My friends and I used the term in college, but it really was just slang. P. D. Cook Talk to me! 15:20, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, not as a neologism, but as a dictionary definition. The term "[operating system] box" was certainly in use thirty years ago when I was a systems programmer working with IBM mainframe systems, but it was applied to all sizes of computer, including the largest commercial mainframe computers of the time which were called "MVS boxes", so the article is not only a dictionary definition, but also an innacurate one. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per Phil Bridger (although current usage in the plural is 'boxen') (; --Nuujinn (talk) 01:59, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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