Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Symbolic Manipulation Program

Symbolic Manipulation Program

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No independent sourcing is present in the article. My WP:BEFORE searches indicate that there is one independent source available [1], but it's not clear to me that it's a WP:RS and it has limited content of encyclopedic value. The page has also been subject to promotional editing by presumably paid editors (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Badtoothfairy). My prod was reverted with the edit summary "Certainly notable as predecessor to Mathematica"; however, "being a predecessor to something notable" is not part of WP:GNG or any other notability guideline. Since the whole article is only one paragraph long (plus a bit of pointless Wolfram name-checking added by socks), I would be happy if this discussion ended either with the article being deleted or being merged into the article Mathematica. JBL (talk) 15:25, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. JBL (talk) 15:25, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. JBL (talk) 15:25, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per the nomination and the fact that it's basically squatting on a title that could refer to computer algebra software more broadly. For example, one of the first Google hits is a paper that mentions translating these problems into a form suitable for symbolic manipulation programs. Another is a technical abstract that refers to The potential role of symbolic manipulation programs. Yet another is a paper whose title refers to REDUCE as a symbolic manipulation program. XOR'easter (talk) 17:25, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]