Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ZoomText

Note: Closed as "keep. I don't know if I'm allowed (as a non-admin) to discount the only delete vote, but it looks pretty unreliable and POV to me. Obviously any admin can unclose..." by --james^(talk) 10:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC) but reopened by nae'blis 20:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC). I'm concerned about not discounting 1&only's opinion unfairly, and this isn't an unambiguous case.

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The result was keep. Mailer Diablo 16:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

ZoomText

Procedural completion of partial nomination by 1&only (talk · contribs); I abstain, as I do not have enough knowledge to say this is worthy of an article or not. -- nae'blis _(talk) 20:48, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - ZoomText has for many years been a well known software tool in the accessibility/enabling software category. Also note that the nominator's only other edit before doing this AfD has been to remove the mention of ZoomText from another article. -- Argon233 ^T C _@ ∉  22:42, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Full disclosure - I work for an originization which uses ZoomText to meet accessibility requirements, and we have found that ZoomText has met these needs well.-- Argon233 ^T C _@ ∉  23:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per Argon233. --MECU≈talk 00:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• I think it should be kept because it served me a lot. I knew about that program through Wiki-Pedia and the program has served me a lot.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.0.202 (talk • contribs)
• Delete - On www.magnifiers.org there is a huge list of screen magnifiers.
  Some of them have magnification more then 32.
  Some of them are freeware. Some of them served me a lot.
  More of them has for many years been a well known software tool in the accessibility/enabling software category.
  ZoomText is "special" because it cost over $500.
  ZoomText is Advertisements masquerading as articles ( see WP:SPAM ).—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 1&only (talk • contribs) 03:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Full disclosure - 1&only (talk · contribs) has admited here that he/she is a developer of a competing product, and so has an apparent conflict of intrest and/or potential to gain by the removal of the ZoomTest article from Wikipedia. -- Argon233 ^T C _@ ∉  23:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Weak keep, but cleanup. Notability isn't asserted. How does it pass WP:SOFTWARE? Note also Argon233 and 1&only's rv war on the Screen Magnifier page.--Karnesky 21:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

1. Google test on ZoomText results in about 294,000 results. Please look at the number of *.edu sites that come up on that search, including the number of libraries that are using this product.
2. Subject is notable enough to be included in the short list of Accessibility Technology products on OOo.[1] -- Argon233 ^T C _@ ∉  23:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I had an employee with retinitis pigmentosa that was being overtaken by macular degeneration. Needless to say, she was losing her ability to see peripherally and centrally. Because of this program, I was able to keep her working for more than three years. This may not sound like a lot to us, but it was the difference between life and no life for her. This product was suggested to us by the Association for the Blind and was provided at no cost to us. Most of the blind and those looking for information on it, have heard about it by name. I would have no problem with linking it with other magnifyers, but it would be nice for them to get unbiased info for it on wikipedia as well as on product websites. The article does need work though.--Dematt 02:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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