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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an indiscriminate colleciton of information, not a guide, and not a man
page. There's no evidence (including what I could find from WP:BEFORE) that this command has been covered in reliable, independent sources – except for 'Linux for beginners'-style books that tutorialize its usage but offer no encyclopedic context. I know that a lot of these kinds of articles exist like env, but that's a notoriously bad argument for keeping or deleting an article. They entirely contravene long-established Wikipedia policy to make something that exists between a man
page and a GeeksForGeeks page. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 15:00, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to System time#Retrieving system time, as is the case with Date (command). DigitalIceAge (talk) 02:28, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
- Delete – Summarising what I wrote on the talk page when the article appeared in the new pages feed a month ago,
- When I first saw this article it reminded me of the Wikipedia Manual of Style which says: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedic reference, not an instruction manual, guidebook, or textbook" (WP:NOTHOW). So I tried to find information elsewhere about date (unix command) to see where the idea came from, who wrote the code, how has it developed over time etc etc but I didn’t find anything. There are articles for echo (command), dirname and pwd, amongst others. They are less about teaching readers the syntax, and more about explaining the context, so I can see why they are there. If this article stays, then it needs far more background information to turn it into an encyclopedia article.
- I'm very sceptical that more background information will come to light, hence my !vote to delete. --Northernhenge (talk) 22:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
- Redirect to List of POSIX commands or System time#Retrieving system time. I originally expressed my notability concerns here on the article creator's talk page, and I agree with the WP:NOTGUIDE concerns expressed above. Zeibgeist (talk) 23:52, 3 May 2025 (UTC)