Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Firefox 2

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The result was keep‎ . Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox 2

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Believe it should be delete under WP:NOT because we're directory of software. would like to also suggest that the following be deleted as well

Firefox 3.0 Firefox 3.5 Firefox 3.6 Firefox 4 1keyhole (talk) 02:45, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep Clearly verifiable and notable. Delete this article will definitely hurt Wikipedia. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:07, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Internet and Software. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:19, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Strong oppose: Nothing inherently wrong with any of these articles, what are you getting at exactly? Streetlampguy301 (talk) 21:20, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The articles included are closer in scope to Windows 98 than a hypothetical article on Firefox 98 (since the versions of Firefox in question are before Firefox changed their release model and those releases were major releases.) Skynxnex (talk) 23:12, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep. To delete this article and the ones similar to it would be akin to deleting articles like Mac OS X 10.0, Windows 98, Android Eclair and numerous other articles like them. They're major releases of software and are of relative importance; as The person who loves reading stated, this will most certainly harm Wikipedia. Dawnbails (talk) 11:56, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep all of them for now. We need to see what's going to happen with Firefox version history and Firefox early version history first. There may be a case eventually for merging these into the latter, but the general trend around Firefox version articles for the last decade has been to split them up given how long the pages were getting — so unless those version history pages are extensively cleaned up a merge is probably unwise. For the time being, these are short but well-written & well-sourced articles about browser versions that were very popular at the time of their release, and so are important to people wanting to understand the development of the web. They belong on Wikipedia. – The Fiddly Leprechaun · Catch Me! 15:26, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Clearly notable software. Klausness (talk) 12:40, 21 April 2023 (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.