Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Natural Desktop

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. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 21:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Natural Desktop

Reason Warteck 13:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: AfD process needs to be finished + reason should be added. Pavel Vozenilek 15:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed the link on the article itself - I am guessing they thought it was non-notable. They seem to be rather new. GreenReaper 15:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all. It looks as if Stardock, rather non-notable company, had based their marketing activities on Wikipedia. I support deleting all articles about their product articles and the article about the company as well. Pavel Vozenilek 15:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I wrote that article and most of the others, on my own time. I did become an employee of Stardock - after writing most of them - but it was not as a result of writing those articles, nor was I compensated for them.

To address the general question of notability: Stardock is, as noted in their main article, a leader in the area of customizing desktop environments, and turn-based strategy gaming. Its latest game expansion, Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, won Editors' Choice awards from well-known review sites such as GameSpy and IGN. Object Desktop, and in particular WindowBlinds, IconPackager, ObjectBar and DesktopX are all well known in the customization industry - the package as a whole dates back to 1995, and OS/2, although it moved to Windows in 1998. The company also maintains a website, WinCustomize, which is popular enough to qualify for its own article under WP:WEB (though that article has problems which could do with resolving as well - I'm not a regular on the site, so I've mostly avoided it).

As to this particular product - I would have merged it into a bigger article like Object Desktop if it was part of such a package. It is only distributed standalone at this time, though. Perhaps a merge into Stardock, or WinCustomize? (it is branded as a "WinCustomize" product, and sold via the site) GreenReaper 15:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Ojbect Desktop. Object Desktop's components have won various awards and are certainly notable, but this component doesn't stand on it's own. However, deleting all Stardock programs and the company itself out of hand is both beyond the scope of this AFD and also a little ridiculous, since Stardock is certainly notable, as is some of their software.Chunky Rice 17:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as non-notable software. I didn't realize that this wasn't a part of Object Desktop. I say delete unless it can be merged into some other product line.Chunky Rice 17:26, 20 March 2007 (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.