Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Switched multimegabit data services

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 SMDS. v/r - T P 02:04, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Switched multimegabit data services

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This article is an abandoned version of the later started SMDS article discussing the same topic. The content is a plain copy&paste from the public-domain source, which incorrectly sets the term in the plural. While the article could be turned into a redirect to SMDS, considering the typo and no other contributions or references I suggest deletion, followed by move+redirect SMDS to Switched Multimegabit Data Service. Nageh (talk) 21:13, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. — — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 00:19, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete SMDS is the same topic and far more complete. I also agree with the move+redirect: I think that the full name of the protocol is better than using the acronym. — Dgtsyb (talk) 10:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:37, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support the Delete, Move, Redirect although perhaps the FS-1037C source could be mentioned in the merged article. But of course needs to be put in context: it says 1998 on the page here but this article says "currently" which is very misleading (perhaps even in 1998). It does in fact give it in lower case and plural, but no need to confuse with that spelling. As per our other discussions, I think this should be a proper noun and thus in title upper case, since it refers to a specific unifying standard, not any old switched service for data of more than a megabit (of which now there are a plethora). It looks like the standard uses the hyphen, so maybe Switched Multi-megabit Data Service as spelled in the article would be the name to use for move? If someone has a copy of the spec to see how it is spelled in the body that would be helpful. Just doing the redirect could be done without admin intervention and seems fine too: this is just a refinement and updating, not vandalism removal. W Nowicki (talk) 17:55, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Telcordia documents do not hyphenate. One document (or, at least the Telcordia document index and title) is referenced from the SMDS article. — Dgtsyb (talk) 02:00, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to SMDS. No need to bring simple cleanup tasks to to AfD. --Kvng (talk) 05:00, 5 October 2011 (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.