Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ada (computer virus)

Ada (computer virus)

Extinct, rare DOS virus from the 90s with no notability established. There were thousands if not tens of thousands of trivial COM infectors of this type written, many virtually identical, and most like this one not very widespread, especially given the comparatively small installed based of the time and the non-networked mode of spread. Not notable. In general there are several other viruses in that probably should be removed, and if this is deleted please remove from the Ada disambig page. NTK (talk) 20:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - It was basically just copied more the mcfee site, but I think that it could be saved. I may try to work on it a bit. RockManQ (talk) 22:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This was pretty well known back in the day. The article needs enhancement, not erasure. Ecoleetage (talk) 23:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
How about this? I know I didn't do the inline citations right but it's overall a big improvment over the pasted and copied version. RockManQ (talk) 23:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also I pulled all of that information off of two sites, should be more out on the web. RockManQ (talk) 23:42, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I uploaded my sandbox, revert it if you like, but I think it's fine now except the inline citations. RockManQ (talk) 23:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is not "fine." The only sources you have cited or used are two virus indexes. No secondary sources have been cited. This has done nothing to establish notability. Wikipedia is not a virus index. All you've done is rephrase and include more information from two virus indexes. As I said, there are tens of thousands of viruses not substantially different from Ada, and there is zero evidence that Ada was especially widespread or influential. It appears to be little more than a vanity virus for its creator. NTK (talk) 01:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - per above THFFF (talk) 10:55, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]