Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Direct Save Protocol

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The result was merge to X Window selection#XDND. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 17:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Direct Save Protocol

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Zero notability. Semi-promotional. Declined PROD. wumbolo ^^^ 10:11, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Delete as per norminator. ShunDream (talk) 10:33, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:28, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:28, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails GNG. I searched and could not find any source to redeem this article. Lovelylinda1980 (talk) 15:04, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to X_Window_selection#XDND——Wizard ^{leave a comment} 14:58, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to X_Window_selection#XDND as suggested by Wizard Djm-leighpark (talk) 04:24, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge This is an aspect of an obviously notable topic (it is one of the protocols defined as part of the X Window System). If this particular aspect of that topic isn't of sufficient notability or importance in its own right to deserve its own article, it is nonetheless deserving of mention as part of some other article on that overall topic, in which case the answer would be to merge to some other relevant article (such as the "X Window selection" article suggested by Wizard). I don't see how "Delete" could be justified given the notability of the overall topic of which this forms a part. SJK (talk) 06:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to X Window selection#XDND (or keep if sources are found, as I have no confidence that WP:BEFORE was done based on this mass AfDing, and the nom's spurious "semi-promotional" - huh?). Widefox; talk 12:32, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge rationale seems appropriate as suggested above. HighKing⁺⁺ 18:52, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge This is a verifiable protocol per the spec linked to in the external sources. It is a small but important addition of the X drag and drop protocol. It is then worth merging the first sentence into X_Window_selection#XDND with the spec as a source verifying as an alternative to deletion. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 19:43, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.