Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RAM card

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 Random-access memory. If an editor ever comes across paper sources that could be used to establish notability and expand this article, this decision can be revisited. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:41, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RAM card

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Unsourced contested PROD. Creator has placed a comment on the talk page explaining why they contested. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 03:41, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:27, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The term "Ram card" is also sometimes used for memory expansion cards for Amiga computers. Eg. Amiga Schopper, October 1994, issue 42, pp. 10-14 lists in its comparison 3 such cards. Interesting enough, the term "Ram card" is not mentioned in the article (only in adverts in the same issue), but a short preview of the previous issues (eg. July 1995, issue 51, p. 82) shows the caption ""Find out how to put your A 1200 into fifth gear with our Supertest of A 1200 RAM cards and accelerators". Note redirect may be a good solution here. Pavlor (talk) 10:12, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Random-access memory: I believe all the information that isn't already in the target is non-encyclopedic, but if I'm wrong, a Merge will work as well. Owen× ☎ 19:45, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Upon a first read, I also considered whether it would ever warrant more than a passing mention in the Random-access memory article, but then I took a look at the SIMM and DIMM articles and got a decent idea of the potential that this article has. You wouldn't propose merging those into the RAM article, would you? Figuring out how to do a resource search in the first place is the tough part because these devices were pretty much obsolete by the time the world wide web came around, and many other searches just get you buried in ads for people and company selling RAM cards, but searching through 1980's computer magazine archives on Google Books turned up some lengthy review articles that will also produce specific product names that can be searched further for more references. I've started that ball rolling on the article's talk page discussion that is going on. RecycledPixels (talk) 07:16, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@RecycledPixels: You asked, You wouldn't propose merging those into the RAM article, would you? My answer is, Yes, I would, if SIMM and DIMM didn't contain any encyclopedic information beyond what is already in Random-access memory. A redirect doesn't erase the RAM card page's history. If at any future point the section about RAM card in the merged article becomes large enough to warrant its own page, we can easily split them back. Owen× ☎ 12:46, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Random-access memory per OwenX. Keres🌕Luna ^edits! 21:19, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, redirect this to Random-access memory. - The Master of Hedgehogs ^{(always up for a conversation!)} 14:51, 12 December 2023 (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.