Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Windows Media Player 12

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 merge to Windows Media Player. (non-admin closure) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 11:09, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Windows Media Player 12

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An article fork of Windows Media Player. (It has not always been so, but now it is.) I advise redirect. Fleet Command (talk) 17:07, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If this has not always been a fork then surely the solution is to revert to a version that is not? Phil Bridger (talk) 18:23, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, no. It never had the potential to remain a standalone article. It was bound to happen. People just hoped that the situation would change and the article would gain notability and the potential to grow. (See Talk:Windows Media Player#Merger proposal: Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Player 12.) It did not go as they expected. Fleet Command (talk) 10:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete have two separate articles is confusing. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:48, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. This article is a little too small. Unless someone can do work on it they should delete it. Try merging it with Windows Media Player. It may have the ability to be a standalone article but I don't think so.Madeincat (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:21, 13 October 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, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/redirect to Windows Media Player. Neutrality^talk 00:49, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Already the article Windows Media Player is too huge and does not make sense adding large sections to this page on each growing version of the software. This page has enough details to be kept as a separate article. --Sreejith K (talk) 07:17, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- That reason has hardly anything to do with this nomination: This article is a fork; everything in this article is already in Windows Media Player. And if you are so worried for the size of Windows Media Player article, it is already full of stuff that violate Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, such as original researches, lists of indiscriminate items, etc. Delete them and reduce size; I will not contest you, thought the article is hardly 42 kilobytes (43,512 bytes). (It is not even large.) Fleet Command (talk) 11:41, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge verifiable information to Windows Media Player. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:23, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
MERGE WITH Windows Media Player. Dontforgetthisone (talk) 00:25, 17 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.