Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stanford Smart Memories Project

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. Mfield (Oi!) 06:44, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stanford Smart Memories Project

This article appears to be extremely self-acknowledging and self-promoting, but the project this page describes is not well-known within the computer science community and therefore fails to meet the notability guideline. The nature of the page suggests that members of the project described by the page are using the page both as a project homepage and as a means to promote the project, neither of which are within the guidelines of Wikipedia. The article also does not meet the criteria for reliability, as a very large portion of the links lead back to pages created by members of the project on other websites. @modi (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - we need expert opinion here. Bearian (talk) 21:37, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am a computer scientist and this is close to my area of research. It is unlikely I would have found this page otherwise. @modi (talk) 20:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:08, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This might or might not be a notable project, but this isn't an appropriate way to write about it: this article is being used by the Stanford team as a substitute for a project web site. Most of the text here is ripped directly from pages within the project's web site. Copyright is not an issue here, as the primary author (User:Su-steveri) suggests that he is Stephen Richardson, who probably wrote the project web site as well. What is an issue, however, is that the material copied from there has a completely inappropriate tone for Wikipedia, making heavy use of the first person and failing to cite most of its statements to independent sources. There might be an article in here somewhere, but this isn't it. Zetawoof_(ζ) 02:35, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete under WP:NOTWEBHOST. WillOakland (talk) 04:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
keep: I do not think the way an article is written is grounds for deleting it. If an article is written in a way that is inappropriate, the article should be rewritten, not deleted. The question in my mind is whether the subject is notable. "not well-known" is not the way I define notability. There are notable yet obscure subjects in all scientific fields. i.e. rare plants or insects. I note with interest (although I admit it is probably not significant), that "Stanford Smart Memories Project" placed in speech marks in a google search has 536 hits [1]. Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 07:54, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Unless you are offering to rewrite the article now, there is no point in keeping it. What's written here is not an encyclopedia article and doesn't belong here. WillOakland (talk) 16:45, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Article is a little to technical for me. But no doubt somebody familiar with some of the terms (multiple processors, single integrated circuit chip, chip multiprocessor, an IC, Reconfigurable computing....etc) may be able to strip the article and turn it into a stub. This in my mind is preferable to deletion. Any offers? Yours ever, Czar Brodie (talk) 22:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The article has been here for nearly two and a half years now, and (literally!) nobody from outside Stanford has made any substantial edits to it. Eventualism has its place, but at a certain point it starts becoming clear that there's simply no one who's willing to write a suitable article. Moreover, a blank slate might well be a better starting point than the current article. Zetawoof_(ζ) 02:26, 3 April 2009 (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.