Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insertion sort implementations

Insertion sort implementations and Selection sort implementations

Wikipedia is not a code repository, nor is it a programming tutorial. This content may or may not be useful, but it's certainly not encyclopedic. I propose to delete or transwiki to WikiBooks, where original content belongs. bmills 17:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Included in this nomination are:

See also: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quicksort implementations, which resulted in a transwiki and delete. --bmills 18:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transwiki to wikisource or wikibooks. We should come up with an explicit policy for where to send useful source code which has reference value. --Karnesky 18:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- WikiSource has an explicit "no original writings" policy, which makes it inappropriate for most of the source code proposed for deletion from Wikipedia. So I think WikiBooks is the only appropriate place for it to go. See Wikisource:Wikisource:What is Wikisource? for relevant discussion, including whether material should to go WikiSource or WikiBooks. --bmills 18:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - WS explicity takes source code in the public domain or under the GFDL (as WP's articles are licensed under). Other source code has been transwikied there (see, for example, WikiSource:Transwiki:99_Bottles_of_Beer_computer_program). I'm not satisfied that source code fits (or was intended to fit) under the "original writings" exception at WS. As I said, there is a discussion to be had here, but I don't think AfD is the ideal place to hold it. --Karnesky 19:01, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Also see WikiSource:Source_code. They actually request an entry on these sorting implementations (though they also request Quicksort, which didn't get transwikied to WS). --Karnesky 19:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Finally, see WikiBooks:Talk:Transwiki:Quicksort_implementations#Wikisource for the reasoning on why they merged to WikiBooks. --Karnesky 19:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The other alternative is to direct such content to LiteratePrograms which, while not a WikiMedia project, is a wiki specifically designed for this type of information. Leland McInnes 20:32, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transwiki per Karnesky.--Isotope23 18:19, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Transwiki --ZeWrestler ^Talk 18:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (or transwiki) per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quicksort implementations. —Ruud 22:46, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all source code only articles. WP has no chance to be source code repository. Pavel Vozenilek 23:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- That's on my list of things to do, and a lot of progress has been made in the past week or so. --bmills 02:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki. --ZeroOne 01:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-25 05:41Z
Delete or Transwiki per nom. --Allan McInnes (talk) 04:40, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Transwiki per nom. --Pfalstad 13:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]