Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M Sharp

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The result was delete‎. Star Mississippi 18:01, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

M Sharp

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Fails WP:NSOFT; no indication that this language received any attention from businesses or researchers. The Business Standard source in the article is PR, and the other nominally independent source isn't about M#. A general search didn't find any coverage. Unrelated to a language from Microsoft's Midori project, codenamed M#. Deproded with edit summary "has notable sources". Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing and United Kingdom. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Half of the listed sources are WP:PRIMARY, and three out of the four sources are dead links. The remaining source does not seem independent from the subject. Fails WP:GNG. Madeleine (talk) 02:05, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Note. Found a few sources, I think:

- https://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/microsoft-s-midori-os-may-have-spawned-a-new-programming-language-1211300
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130310015719/http://business-reporter.co.uk/2012/11/the-end-of-offshoring/#:~:text=Building%20applications%20using%20traditional%20tools,NET%20code

Fryedk (talk) 19:39, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Fryedk: The first source is about an entirely unrelated language, and the second source is just marketing material as I stated in the nomination (I mistakenly said Business Standard instead of Business Reporter). It was published as a supplement directly by parent company Lyonsdown, and looking at some other supplements in the Business Reporter ([1], [2]) it is clear that their intent is promotional. As stated here, Lyonsdown is the UK's leading publisher of special interest reports. Distributed with major national newspapers, each of our publications reaches an average of 1.5 million people.* We can reach your audience and raise your profile. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:22, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

- Thank you, perhaps the article should be instead rewritten about this language lol. Fryedk (talk) 05:26, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 14:07, 7 March 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.