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SCSI Test Unit Ready Command

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Nominating SCSI Test Unit Ready Command, SCSI Request Sense Command, SCSI Format Unit Command, SCSI Inquiry Command, SCSI Mode Select Command, SCSI Mode Sense Command, SCSI Request Sense Command, SCSI Receive Diagnostic Results Command, SCSI Read Capacity Command, SCSI Start Stop Unit Command, SCSI Log Select Command, SCSI Log Sense Command, SCSI Report LUNs Command, SCSI Send Diagnostic Command for deletion in this batch. These are even worse than SCSI Read Commands in terms of being an indiscriminate dump of technical specs in Wikipedia, contravening WP:NOTTEXTBOOK, understood as "not a dump of technical specs" in this case. Someone not using his real name (talk) 01:45, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Someone not using his real name (talk) 01:45, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The advice from WP:PRODUCT (the stuff about "Explosive Space Modulators") against creating such pages applies to individual IT protocol commands as well, methinks. Someone not using his real name (talk) 01:58, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merging these pages and creating a Wikibook would perhaps be an appropriate solution, assuming anyone cares to do such duplicative work, given that the SCSI docs are free (to read) from Seagate... Someone not using his real name (talk) 02:16, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Looking for example at SCSI Format Unit Command and comparing it with the 2010 Seagate doc (pp. 60-75), it's clear this Wikipedia page hasn't been updated in substance since it was created, and even then it was probably too incomplete to be useful in some way. (You can find out that there's a FORMAT command from the main article.) Having some half-assed/outdated technical documentation hosted on Wikipedia is mostly useless. Someone not using his real name (talk) 02:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. Yeah, this is better served in some other sister project, and I guess someone could transwiki it. The intention was good, but it's not encyclopedic. I don't mind out-of-date and useless pages (which can be fixed and updated), but this is basically protocol cruft. A brief overview of SCSI protocols (such as history, major hurdles, and an example or two) would be fine, but documenting it in detail is not. WP:NOTTEXTBOOK seems to cover this fairly well. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 13:35, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Agree - delete all unless they can be significantly updated and merged somehow. 50.53.15.59 (talk) 11:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]