Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Civil engineering software (2nd nomination)

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. ✗plicit 01:17, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Civil engineering software

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This article reads like an essay. There are some citations, but the subjects are sufficiently disjoint that the decision to put all of these topics in one article does not seem appropriate to me. I'm fine with merging some content into different articles, but from an organizational perspective, I think the existence of this article is confusing and makes it harder for readers to find the information they need. The decision to talk about all of these topics in one article seems like a violation of WP: OR to me, because no one source discusses all of these different subjects. HyperAccelerated (talk) 18:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I read the previous AfD before nominating this article. Sourcing is an issue here, but I'm more concerned with the fact the article covers topics that are relatively disjoint but are vaguely related to "civil engineering software". HyperAccelerated (talk) 18:12, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Engineering and Software. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:12, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting. Not eligible for Soft Deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:18, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as the topic is broad and WP:TNT would be a better option here. I doubt any information here isn't already present on the wiki under their engineering topics. It doesn't even provide examples of software like MATLAB. – The Grid (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as the page is undersourced; if needed, anyone may restart it with reliable sources and without original research. --Insillaciv (talk) 15:11, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It is an unsourced essay, and as such fails both WP:OR and WP:SYNTH. I don't see useful, encyclopedic information here. Pages on actual software belong as part of a See also or similar on the civil engineering page. Ldm1954 (talk) 07:17, 20 February 2025 (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.