Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MIDI 1.0

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 redirect to MIDI. (non-admin closure) b uidhe 20:09, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MIDI 1.0

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

MIDI is certainly notable, but there's no demonstration of why MIDI 1.0 is independently notable sufficient to require a separate article. Notable, relevant, encyclopaedic information about MIDI 1.0 can be covered sufficiently in the MIDI article.

The article consists entirely of dense technical information, and mostly of long tables of technical data. That is not the purpose of Wikipedia (see WP:NOT). We should serve a general readership (see WP:TECHNICAL). Additionally, as per WP:INDISCRIMINATE, To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.

WP:NOTMANUAL also applies - most of the data in these tables comprises reference material useful for people working with MIDI (for example someone looking to check which CC number sends a Portamento On/Off message) but no one else. This is not the purpose of Wikipedia.

The article has very few sources, which is a fundamental requirement of Wikipedia (see WP:CITE). It is composed almost entirely of uncited original research (see WP:OR).

Let's redirect it to MIDI.

I think this article is a good example of a general problem with music technology articles on Wikipedia - they overwhelmingly consist of uncited technical information with little real encyclopaedic content. Popcornfud (talk) 20:29, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:18, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to MIDI. This could perhaps have been dealt with outside AfD as a merge or a bold redirect, but there is a valid deletion criterion: WP:NOTMANUAL. This page looks like a MIDI 1 technical manual, and Wikipedia is not a manual. Instead of deleting and redirecting, suggest the closing admin just create a redirect, preserving page history should anyone wish to merge any content in the future (although not much would be suitable for merging, which is why I don't propose merge). -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 22:52, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Sirfurboy, FYI, I did create a Talk page discussion a few days ago and considered boldly redirecting, but erred on the side of caution and nominated with a 7-day deletion nomination instead. It was reverted as another editor felt it required discussion. Popcornfud (talk) 23:02, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - OK, thanks. that is all fine then. -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 23:09, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to MIDI, as per mostly WP:TECHNICAL and the others listed above. dibbydib ^💬/_✏ 22:53, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to MIDI - per all above. Pavlor (talk) 10:31, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, for what's it worth, this page and its long, dense tables of information have been very valuable to me for the past few days as i've been engaged in writing code so that an old MIDI keyboard would work with a new system. All the relevant information from the MIDI 1.0 standard is neatly summarised in one page which i keep open in a single tab instead of having to scroll through multiple separate pages if i had to reference the actual printed standard. It'd be a shame to see it go away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.72.209 (talk) 11:16, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to MIDI - per the rest. I appreciate the fact that the page has been useful to the above IP editor, but that is not sufficient evidence of the page being notable on itself. --MrClog (talk) 12:18, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to MIDI - Not notable on it's own. Analog Horror, (Speak) 14:54, 18 March 2020 (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.