Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ack (command-line utility)

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The result was delete. NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 05:18, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ack (command-line utility)

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Procedural nomination - previously deleted via proposed deletion with the reason of "Unreferenced since creation in 2007, fails to assert importance". (Previous version here.) Mike Rosoft (talk) 10:58, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, no evidence of notability. Why did you restore the article history? Nyttend (talk) 12:32, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article needs work, but ack deserves coverage. Narrow-minded wiki-proceduralism will undoubtedly delete it anyway, but it's a little-known tool that's actually of great value and deserves to be more widely known. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:21, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:47, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why does it deserve coverage? Nyttend (talk) 15:27, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, it doesn't, at least not as an encyclopedia article. There's nothing encyclopedic about most gnu/linux/unix commands, and plenty of coverage on the web in howto and tutorials. WP is not about howtos. --Nuujinn (talk) 16:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I can't find significant coverage. Joe Chill (talk) 19:28, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Ack seems to be actively used from programmers as described at http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/03/ack-grep-for-developers.html or http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ack-grep-a-grep-like-program-specifically-for-large-source-trees.html . My vague interpretation is that it should at least have a mention on grep if not a separate article.Pxtreme75 (talk) 09:20, 27 June 2010 (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.