Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wii Linux Project

Wii Linux Project

A non-notable, incomplete project. Simply enough, something that may never be done and has little individual value. Possibly on the Wii and/or Linux pages. Scepia 21:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:SOFTWARE -- Selmo ^(talk) 21:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I disagree. It seems like a group of people feel the need to put Linux on every platform they possibly can, and there's plenty trying to get it on the Wii — here's a list of nine different sites up for Linux hacks especially (ten, if you include the site linked to). It's in development still, but it almost certainly will be done, and there's Wikipedia articles on software/hardware in development. Be more specific about what it fails in WP:SOFTWARE. Whether there should be a separate page on every variation of Linux, according to system... now, that's a different question. 66.69.90.253 22:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Y'know, you could find 1,000 sites on a given topic, but it doesn't mean it belongs on WP. 9 or 10 is pretty pathetic, what should we write an article about milk and cookies and the scientific interactions they create? Scepia 00:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. Koweja 22:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable, cited. What more could you want? Also, could you please source the policy that says that something planned for (and proven to be in via citing, as to not be crystalballing) development is not for the wiki? -Ryanbomber 12:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- As simple as WP:Notability. Every little project can't be mentioned. Scepia 00:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I think that a project which tries to getting linux work in this machine and have 700 registered users in their wiki isn't a little project. Also I think that is notable enough. (Sorry about my english, corrections are welcome!) Kresp0 23:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Comment: You could find 700 users at many, many other sites. However, there are not Wikipedia pages about those sites, as they are not notable enough. Scepia 00:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Ryanbomber, article's sources demonstrate notability. hateless 22:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- A post from /. and Ars doesn't grant Wikipedia rights. You could find a great number, truly a huge number of products that don't have a WP page. Scepia 00:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, how is this any different from Xbox Linux? In fact, looking through Category:Linux distributions, I see many distributions that are much less notable than this one. JACOPLANE • 2007-01-3 02:50
- Comment: WP:INN --Pak21 17:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Xbox Linux is a working, complete project. Wiili barely qualifies above vapourware. IMO the project has lost it's original goals, currently they are just a not very organized repository of random Wii information. Most of the software at Wiili is actually Windows software. 88.0.76.244 01:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment: I would just like to point out Duke Nukem Forever has an article. Yeah, yeah, WP:INN, but since when has vaporware been grounds for deletion? -Ryanbomber 12:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Comment: It's all about notability. Duke is notable just because it is vaporware, this is not notable at all. Scepia 00:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: coverage in ArsTech and Slashdot meets the "subject of multiple non-trivial published works" criterion of WP:SOFTWARE --Pak21 17:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Follow the spirit of the law, not the letter. Let's go write something about the Samsung 4420 HDTV because it was mentioned on Ars and Engadget, once each. Just a fake example, but the point stands. Scepia 04:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And we feel this is notable enough in spirit to include in the wiki. We have differeing opinions, I guess. -Ryanbomber 12:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. It can have its own article if/when the project is completed. Until then, merge any salvageable bits to the Wii and/or Linux pages. --Alan Au 05:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article was useful to me, especificaly "Controversy and outages". I think that it would be a good start point for anyone who wants to know some information from outside the wiili.org project itself. Kresp0 23:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection if facts. It may be useful, but does it belong on an encyclopedia? Scepia 00:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep because as an answer to above, I think that Wikipedia is a better encyclopedia for having this article. Paul D. Meehan 05:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]