Talk:Star (Unix)

This article was nominated for deletion on 2 June 2011 (UTC). The result of the discussion was merge to Tar (file format).

Proposal for removal by IP User:188.104.122.1 who introduced Vandalism in the German Wikipedia.

I followed the WP instructions and removed the proposal.... --Schily (talk) 11:07, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you call it vandalism to *nominate* a page for deletion and two admins turning that into a speedy deletion and executing it... it's not as if that user actually deleted the page, he just raised notability concerns. These also apply to this article: why is Star more notable than all the other tar applications? --87.174.113.246 (talk) 07:13, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion - Merge into "Tar"

The reasons are actually given on the main page:

Notabiliy uncertain
No third party references or sources
COI - article is essentially written by the Star author to promote his own software

My main concern is that for the typical Wikipedia user, this is just another tar implementation, and it clearly is sufficient to have star in the article Tar (file format), which also covers GNU tar and BSD tar, both of which are much more common than Star. GNU tar actually is a redirect to the Tar file format. Star should be the same, it is just another implementation for handling tar format files; all notability is drawn from being a tar archiver.

Please understand that this is not about "deleting star", but actually I believe the appropriate place is the main "tar" article, and since star is already there, there actually is not much merging required!

The appropriate place for discussion apparently is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star (Unix) but I cannot create that page, being unregistered. --87.174.113.246 (talk) 07:18, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]