Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Off-side rule

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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:54, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Off-side rule

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I can't find significant coverage for this programming notion. Most if not all google books hits cover some sports notion under this name. The corresponding Curly bracket programming language has been redirected after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curly bracket programming language. We already have List_of_programming_languages_by_category#Off-side_rule_languages. Pcap ping 22:47, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Pcap ping 22:48, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per nom. Fails WP:V, WP:RS and Wikipedia is not computer definition manual.----moreno oso (talk) 03:22, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Totally verifiable, the article cites the journal article that coined the term. And the article's content is much more than a mere dictionary definition. --Cybercobra (talk) 19:50, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Gets a fair number of mentions in the literature [1]. --Cybercobra (talk) 19:50, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep85.221.50.108 (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep - Seems to be enough scholarly use of the term as a subject itself, not just being used. Shadowjams (talk) 20:51, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Scope (programming). SnottyWong talk 01:14, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 07:07, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move the title is misleading as most readers will be wanting the primary sports usage. The article's contents should be moved and the current title redirected to Offside (sport). Colonel Warden (talk) 11:37, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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