Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/G (programming language)

G (programming language)

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Until July 9, this was a redirect to G-code. This new article lacks independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG and WP:CORPDEPTH. Wikipedia is not for WP:PROMOTION. Msnicki (talk) 20:58, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was invited to move this article to my user page, but I am not the owner of the "G" programming language, only the initiator of the article, so why would I put it there? I put it here simply for completeness, to add a language that has been omitted and looks interesting. I'd like to cite "Wikipedia does not have firm rules", one of the Pillars of Wikipedia. Drquim (talk) 02:42, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

But Wikipedia does have guidelines that editors follow to develop WP:Consensus in making decisions. You'll find help on how an AfD works at WP:AFDFORMAT. In deciding whether to keep an article, the question is always, are there reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability? On Wikipedia, all of these terms have slightly more technical meanings than you might expect, so it's worth reading the material at WP:GNG. Here, it's not enough that something seems notable, i.e., that people not connected to the subject should take note (because it seems notable), they have to actually do it and they have to do it in reliable independent secondary sources. WP:RS As a practical matter, for a typical software product, that usually means citing a couple magazine articles or mentions in a couple books. Currently, the article doesn't have that and when I Googled, I couldn't find any. Hope this helps (and explains the suggestion you got about moving the article to a page in your user space and continuing working on it as you look for sources.) Msnicki (talk) 15:55, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 17:13, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]