Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software

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 speedy keep. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:06, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Software

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This article appears to have had problems with a lack of citations for a while, and the article Computer program essentially covers the same topic in a better-written, more adequately-sourced manner. I propose that 1) this article is deleted, and 2) the term "Software" either gets redirected to "Computer program" or "Computer program" gets renamed to "Software". EucalyptusTreeHugger (talk) 14:39, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

speedy keep and trout the nom. There is absolutely no reason a notable subject such as this should be at AFd, even if it were april fools day. The existence of a perpetual maintenance tag isn't reason to delete either. Obviously "software" as a term and subject are viable and an extremely encyclopedic topic. PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:43, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - The article has more than enough citations to establish notability; possibly needing more to support certain statements in the article does not create a need for deletion in any way. As Computer program notes in the lede, "A computer program is a component of software" the two are not interchangeable terms therefore a redirect or any similar outcome is unwarranted.. - Aoidh (talk) 17:13, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy/Snow Keep: The argument made above by Aoidh about software and computer programs being different is completely valid and while the state of citations isn't great WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP and thus with no notability issues and it not being a duplicate, plus previous speedies this should be speedily/snow kept. TartarTorte 18:36, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.