Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ch interpreter

Ch interpreter

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Nomination for deletion

There are no independent sources to establish notability and Googling suggests there probably aren't any available anyway. Virtually all of the content is advertising and has been added by a series of SPAs, most of them identified only by an IP address. Other editors have already raised questions about neutrality and notability. I call attention also to the large number of Wikipedia spam links found by What links here. (It was this edit that first caught my attention to the article.)

The citations offered are insufficient. Harry Cheng was the designer of the Ch interpreter which makes anything he wrote about it a primary source and not usable to establish notability. The only secondary sources cited are Francis Glassborow's "Member Experiences" of Ch and Tom Huber's "An Introduction to C and Ch." The Huber citation is unhelpful as it's actually not a secondary source discussing Ch, it's a book review. The Glassborow article is a weak citation: This isn't a PDF, there's no page number and all we have is the text of the article, posted to the website of the vendor. It's not clear if Glassborow article was in a print or online publication and the title and lede suggests this may not have been intended a formal review so much as simply yet another member experience post to a discussion group. Msnicki (talk) 18:20, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This was a contested WP:PROD. Fails notability, doesn't seem to have multiple independant sources. Google Scholar offers 15 hits on the phrase "Ch interpreter" going back to 1824, only a few of which are relevant and none of them seem to be in-depth discussion of this software. The Wikipedia is a general purpose encyclopedia, not a catalog of every programmer's tool ever written. --Wtshymanski (talk) 19:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment—SoftIntegration, the company that provides this software, may itself be notable. In the worst case, we could summarize this topic on a company article page. But the fact that Ch Interpreter is being used in a CS class may lend it at least some notability.[1] It is also being used in an independent commercial product, PSIM.[2]—RJH (talk) 19:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment I couldn't find anything on Google about "Softintegration", the company, aside from a couple of resellers of software - Google Books was unhelpful and I couldn't find it on Google Scholar. --Wtshymanski (talk) 03:46, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. The author is an academic and has published quite a number of article on the subject in question in reliable journals and a book by a large publisher. However, I could not find any citations of his papers or the book at the ACM Digital library, although I did not check all the papers. —Ruud 21:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Multi-aliased WP:SPA who is not responding to requests for WP:RS TEDickey (talk) 21:10, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

1) The page for the article written by Francis Glassborow is updated in wiki. I talked to Dr. Harry Cheng via email and he has a hard copy of the journal. 2) The article written by Tom Hubber in IEEE is a review about both the book and software used in the class for teaching. it is not a book review only article. 3) Another article "Ch Solves Portability Headaches" published in IEEE by Professor Gary Wang is missed to mention. 4) Two additional articles published in mactech and DrDobbs are updated in wiki. One is "Ch, A C/C++ Interpreter -- New possibilities for people who like C and Unix" published in MACTECH, the journal of Apple technology. Another is "Open-RJ and Ch" published in Dr Dobbs.

one more note, the reason I think Ch shell is related to C shell can be based on the above article and the additional information from the vendor.

 http://www.softintegration.com/docs/ch/shell/

Chuser (talk) 17:01, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]