Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C Intermediate Language

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The result was redirect to C programming language#Related_languages. The nominator boldly redirected the article to George Necula#Life and work in spite of the open AfD. As this may as well been the likely end result, I will simply close this as redirect. The participants in the AfD have given arguments that merging some of the content in this article may be more proper. If any editor feels content should be merged, feel free to do it yourself or open a discussion on the destination page's talk page. The article's content can still be viewed in the page's edit history. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 00:25, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

C Intermediate Language

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Not notable. Qwertyus (talk) 15:04, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Redirect to C programming language#Related_languages. CIL (C Intermediate Language) is at least slightly notable. The article already links to a paper published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and searching Google Books/Scholar reveals a few other sources which also mention it. I concur with the nom in not seeing sufficient notability for a entire article about this language, but there are enough WP:RS to properly cite a paragraph describing this variant of C in C programming language#Related_languages. --Mike Agricola (talk) 18:14, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to C programming language#Uses. (merge to C programming language#Related_languages would be OK, too). The C Intermediate Language is verifiable and is one of the subjects of an article on low-level semantics. But I've been unable to find multiple in-depth reliable sources needed to pass general notability guidelines WP:GNG. As a verifiable and somewhat notable topic, we should strive to preserve the information, per WP:PRESERVE and Mike Agricola's suggestion of a merge is a good one. C-based intermediate languages are mentioned in C programming language#Uses so I'd have a preference for that section, but agree that C programming language is the right target article for the merge. --Mark viking (talk) 19:23, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to George Necula, who is the researcher behind all this. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:46, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Agree. Qwertyus (talk) 22:52, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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