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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 delete‎. Liz Read! Talk! 01:47, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Features of the Opera web browser

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Weird subartricle with no other similar article for any piece of software (there are only three other Features of... articles on Wikipedia, all plot summaries of comics, also discussed at AfD right now). This is effectively a weird prose WP:CFORK of the main Opera (web browser) article, -history and such. Maybe something here could be merged to the main article, otherwise per WP:ATD-R this could be redirected there, if folks prefer to keep it for its history. Fails WP:GNG otherwise, plus - well, pointless fork. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:53, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

merge into Opera (web browser) or delete: pointless fork, especially when you consider that at best, 2 of these features are actually notable. all others have been staples of browsers to the point a large part of the article is WP:BLUE(i'm aware this isn't what wp:blue is meant for as an essay. you get my point). themoon@talk:~$ 08:55, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete (don't merge): This article is very WP:PROMO-ish and loaded with plainly non-notable trivia. Many sections are unsourced, and most of the sources that are cited are either non-independent (Opera website/forums) or unreliable UGC and/or promotional. See also WP:NOTGUIDE...merging with the Opera article would add 34kb of cruft to a 62 kb article. We simply don't need a listing of every single feature of a web browser in an encyclopedia, any more than we need a listing of every single feature of a model of car, particularly when those features are quite standard (option of leather or velour upholstery! Seat warmers in LX and EX trim levels! Delco sparkplugs!). WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 12:18, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    overall I agree, but there are 1 or 2 notable features that would make sense to merge into the main article like being the first to include webVR support and mouse gestures. i'm fine with delete as well, it's not a huge loss, and the main article can still be edited to include them later. themoon@talk:~$ 12:27, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete A purely WP:PROMO content fork of the Opera (web browser) article. No reason to merge or redirect. If any features are notable, they can be added to the main article on their own merit without going through the merge process. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 14:47, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Looks like this became a fork in 2006 and had its own life since then. – The Grid (talk) 18:22, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Feature lists for any software are inappropriate as a standalone article, no matter how notable the software itself is. At best, it's a pointless fork, at worst, it's unsourced advertising. HyperAccelerated (talk) 19:43, 12 February 2025 (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.
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