Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CAOS Linux

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was merge to CentOS#History. There is consensus that the subject is not notable (the keep !vote only posits that notability might exist). There is a slight consensus to merge a small portion of the referenced content to the history section of the article about its successor as an alternative to deletion. (non-admin closure) — MarkH₂₁^talk 00:26, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

CAOS Linux

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Procedural nomination (no opinion on my part) per Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2021_March_25#CAOS_Linux. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:13, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Procedural courtesy ping to participants of RfD: @Laterthanyouthink, Dexxor, Ahunt, Vaticidalprophet, and Uanfala:. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:17, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge, but leaning keep for article balance purposes. The PROD was contested at the time (leading to a unilateral redirect to an inappropriate target, which is what landed us at RfD) because of this project's important role in the history of another. While Linux distros are not really my field and accordingly I am not as qualified to interpret their sources as someone who is, I would be unsurprised if the coverage for a stand-alone article exists in the context of "things that discuss the other project, but give heavy discussion of the history of this". If it doesn't, then this article can be merged to CentOS, the successor of the distro -- but I have some concerns about the degree to which the content of this article can be balanced in the other without making it overlong, and dislike merges that are really redirects with a couple extra words, so I'd prefer to keep where possible. Vaticidalprophet 20:23, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the article does not even come close to WP:GNG. The Computer World ref cited does not even mention it, the Infiscale ref is just a passing mention and the readyspace ref is about the founder, not the OS. The remaining ref is WP:PRIMARY. Just a discontinued, non-notable Linux distro. Sure, it is an ancestor of CentOS, which is notable, but notability is WP:NOTINHERITED. - Ahunt (talk) 22:19, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral - just to note, no opinion from me, I just reported it as an administrative matter and have no knowledge of the subject (and no time to investigate further at the moment). Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:36, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 02:40, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I've dropped a note on 86.23.109.101's talk page, as he was also a major participant but as an IP can't be pinged. Vaticidalprophet 03:47, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
...ha, and I find RandomCanadian got there before me but didn't mention it. Vaticidalprophet 03:47, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge a paragraph or so into the history section of the CentOS article, or Delete. The current sourcing doesn't demonstrate standalone notability in my opinion, we have 2 product/feature listings, an interview on a blog, and a piece that is almost entirely about the popularity of it's successor, CentOS. If this was trimmed of the information about the capitalisation of the name and when the website went dead I think this could form a reasonable paragraph in the CentOS article. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 12:31, 3 April 2021 (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.