Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Xcode

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The result was merge to Xcode. Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:36, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History of Xcode

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Tagged for inappropriate style since 2007. This article is essentially a changelog and presents information as minor as a bugfix release dates. Some of the content may be integrated into Xcode. A separate article doesn't seem justified. Don Cuan (talk) 09:07, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I originally created this article by splitting it out from the main Xcode article. Thank you for notifying me about the AfD. Now that I've seen your AfD nomination, I've removed perhaps half or more of the list items, then converted the article from list form into prose form. --unforgettableid | talk 22:13, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge into Xcode. I think it's always nice for Wikipedia to have history-of-software articles. I think it'd be best to keep this article: it's still a bit too long to merge into Xcode, since Xcode is a pretty short article. --unforgettableid | talk 22:13, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Change logs are part of the sum of human knowledge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.172.92.157 (talk) 09:55, 13 June 2010 (UTC) [reply]

This editor has been blocked for disruptive editing at several AFD's. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 12:28, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:15, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge per above - not seeing a rationale for outright deletion. Artw (talk) 19:03, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to XCode. Verbal chat 12:41, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy merge (is that possible?) to XCode. The parent article is nowhere near long enough to justify spin-off articles. SnottyWong ^speak 23:05, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Xcode- and when I say "merge" I don't mean "lazy copy & dump". As it stands, 90% of this article is in violation of WP:NOTDIR and WP:TRIVIA, being in essence a databse of mostly trivial changes to a piece of software. I recognize though that some of the major revisions to the software might be appropriate in the Xcode article. Reyk _YO! 04:44, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I don't know why anyone would need to look up the release dates and what was released for each version, buts it here if they need it, and no way they'd find it if they weren't looking for it. Most sites keep track of this information on their official webpages though. Dream Focus 06:04, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge: Real merge. If the list of release dates is merged into the Xcode article, it could be hidden with a show/hide box to reduce the impact on that article. What remains could probably be merged into Xcode without bloating that article. - BalthCat (talk) 23:56, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

smerge don't need an total list of every single release... wikipedia is not a directory... just summarize the major milestones and put it in the main articleArskwad (talk) 03:50, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge should be a no-brainer here. FWIW I reckon that enough coverage exists for this to eventually be split back out, but it doesn't warrant its own article right now. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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