Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Server emulator
The term "server emulator" is not consistent with the established definition of the word emulator. At best, its introduction into various articles on Wikipedia is a breach of Wikipedia:No original research. At worst it is vandalism. -- Kethinov
- Thats simply not true Kethinov, just google on the word "server emulator" and look how many hits you get. But good to have other wikipedians opinions to this. Please note that Kethinov with this deletion entry also deleted the notice of server emulator in the emulator page, if this deletion request will turn false, I request to undo kethinov revert of my work on the emulator page. (Be noted, A revert without discussion on wikipedia beforehand). But of course I vote for KEEP. Jestix 20:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I would vote to keep if the information was put into context and proper sources cited. "Server emulator" is a term used only within the MMORPG community, and is not accepted by the computer science community at large. The term is colloquially accepted gamers, but not technically accurate. -- Kethinov
- Kethinov this place here and now is not for us to discuss, you filed your deletion request, I gave my opinion and voted, and now sit back and relax and let wikipedia community decide! Jestix 21:09, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
There are numerous examples of projects which recreate a network server, either according to a spec (NFS, FTP, HTTP) or reverse engineered (Samba amongst others). None of these re-implementations are called emulators. Despite that, the definition in a computer-science setting clearly shows this is an incorrect usage of the word emulator. --Omnivector 22:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)