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Automatix (software)

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Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia, but the important word there is encyclopedia. Often when searching in Google for fairly obscure free software products I'm surprised to find Wikipedia articles in existence, but almost always - of course - written in a "howto" tone and without citations. One has already been deleted (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uberyl) and I'm nominating several more here. The bottom line is that free software or not, articles must be on encyclopedic subjects (WP:NOT), neutral (WP:NPOV), and based on reliable sources (WP:RS). They must not be "howto" guides nor promotional. I contend that none of the following make the grade:

• Automatix (software) - a shell script for installing non-standard packages on Ubuntu Linux. Site is down.
• EasyUbuntu - another installation script
• Ichthux, Ubuntu Christian Edition - "Christian" forks of Ubuntu Linux. There are many other probably not notable Ubuntu forks with articles (see {{Ubuntu-distro}}), let these test the waters.
• Jesux, Yellow Hat GNU/Linux - fictional/hoax Linux distributions --kingboyk 15:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Comment This is too crude to be considered like this. These articles are not written as "howto"s. Automatix and EasyUbuntu are controversial in Ubuntu circles. Ichthux was a more official (and KDE) response to the hype surrounding Ubuntu Christian edition. I think the only ones these could fail is notability. However I think they are fine. Secretlondon 15:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletions. -- Secretlondon 20:42, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

• I would reject all of the proposals on the grounds that the AfD is nothing more than vandalism. If there were legitimate reasons to AfD any of the articles, the AfDs would be filed individually, and not as a group. Instead of flagging those articles with an AfD tag, the nominator should have gone to the discussion page of each of those articles, and listed each and every item of each and every policy that s/he alleges the articles fails to meet. Of course that takes far more work than a simple AfD request, but that lack of effort on their part to make a good faith effort to fix the articles is proof that they are vandals, with a total lack of interest in improving Wikipedia.jonathon 00:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. These articles are not written in a 'how-to' like way, and I think they are reasonably NPOV and also reasonably notable at least in Linux circles. Admittedly they are improvable though. ajdlinux 07:24, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. I don't understand any issues we should have with an encyclopedia containing obscure terms. An encyclopedia is a repository of knowledge, and justifiably should contain obscure articles that people may want to gain information about. In any case, at least one (Automatix) is not obscure in Ubuntu circles. ashish.vashisht