Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virtual device (2nd nomination)

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 Device file. Editors may discuss whether to change this to target a specific section or not. Owen× ☎ 21:29, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Virtual device

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Not notable for a standalone article, doesn't cite any sources. Would be open to redirecting it to Device file#Pseudo-devices, which seems to me as a layman to be what this article is about, except nobody actually calls them 'virtual devices'. JustARandomSquid (talk) 06:39, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Technology and Computing. JustARandomSquid (talk) 06:39, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Twinkle has informed me that someone has already tried to delete this in 2005 for a similar reason as me and failed due to a very large number of users insisting this was called a virtual device. The only source anybody cited at the time didn't use it to mean the same thing as the article. If anyone can actually find any evidence of anyone calling UNIX pseudo-devices 'virtual devices', speak now or forever hold your peace, i guess. Also, I want to delete it because it's not worthy of a standalone article, if the name was the only problem I'd just move it. JustARandomSquid (talk) 06:43, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd just Redirect to Device file (without the section), which covers the same idea in plenty of detail across multiple OSs. It's not the common term on Unix; if someone's using this term then they're more likely to be referring to another OS. Adam Sampson (talk) 22:08, 18 September 2025 (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.