Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Introduction to cloud computing

Introduction to cloud computing

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A fork of cloud computing intended for providing more "user-friendly" explanation of the concept. The merge of topics was discussed in March 2012, and the consensus was reached on merging the article, though the author of forked article disagrees both with merge and deletion. As the name of the fork is unlikely search term and Cloud computing article is readily accessible by non-technical users, the fork is not needed and should be deleted per WP:DEL#REASON #5. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 17:20, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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While I'm generally a supporter of "Introduction to ..."-style articles on technical subjects (e.g. mathematics or physics), I find it difficult to imagine that the main "cloud computing" article would ever become so technical as to require an introductory counterpart. Comparing the two articles I see few differences between the two: at best the introductory article is more difficult to follow and looks more like a writer's notebook than a fleshed out article. This smells of a plain content fork. Unless the author of the introduction can clearly explain how the introductory article would eventually differ from the main article and why such an introductory article is necessary in the first place, I'm inclined towards deleting it. —Ruud 18:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an unnecessary content fork. Shadowjams (talk) 19:02, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Cloud computing. Unnecessary fork as discussed here. I have already attempted to merge any useful material into Cloud computing. --Kvng (talk) 13:39, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- For the record: what is the rationale behind the proposed redirect? — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 15:05, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Introduction to cloud computing gets about 12,000 visits per month. I doubt all of these visitors would find Cloud computing without a redirect. --Kvng (talk) 00:53, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge without redirect. Dmitrij makes a very sensible argument here. There should be an introduction to cloud computing in the main article, and a fork should be unnecessary. Steven Walling • talk 04:53, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free rake a cut at improving Cloud computing using information from Introduction to cloud computing at any time. I gave it a shot but didn't find anything in Introduction to cloud computing that I could use. --Kvng (talk) 13:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - an an introduction, it is still complicated. Bearian (talk) 21:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]