Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MOV (x86 instruction)

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. j⚛e decker ^talk 05:00, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MOV (x86 instruction)

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Referenced only to official Intel documents, but this is not the main problem. Almost all processors have a "move", "load" or "store" instruction, and this particular one does not appear to be any more remarkable (aside from the fact that x86 is the most popular architecture today). Wikipedia is not an x86 reference manual. — Keφr 09:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete—I could see an argument for some of the more, well, notable assembly language instructions having their own articles, but this isn't one of them. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 21:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I fully agree with Lesser Cartographies and the nominator. This is more computing cruft left over from a time when Wikipedia essentially had no inclusion criteria. Groups of instructions, such as MMX or SSE, are certainly notable, and NOP is a notable concept in computer science. This is just an unremarkable implementation of a common instruction. It would be more at home in an x86 programming wiki at Wikia. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:58, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:40, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Aside from the addressing modes, there really isn't much to say about the MOV instruction at the level of an encyclopedia article. I believe that MOV and related addressing modes are already adequately covered in X86_assembly language#Data manipulation instructions. A search turns up no interesting history, aside from the assembly language variants, again covered in the aforementioned article. A lack of reliable sources about this particular x86 instruction, suggests deletion. I would be fine with a redirect as well, although it may be an unlikely search term. --Mark viking (talk) 21:21, 28 August 2014 (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.