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Please read before adding clients A rigid consensus on inclusion criteria for this list has not been reached, but this is the gist of what has been wrangled so far: IRC clients added to this list must either have their own article, in which notability is established, or they must be verifiable using independent reliable sources which discuss the client. In addition to an optional primary source (the author), the client must be supported by either two "passable" independent reliable sources which discuss the client in a few paragraphs, or one "excellent" source which discusses it extensively. These inclusion criteria are the result of long, painful discussion; see the Talk archives, above. Only independent verifiability is required for this list, not general notability(required for article topics). Some sources have been deemed to be reliable about IRC and clients after extensive discussion; these have been cited in the list. Examples: these clients each have two "passable" sources: DMDirc and HydraIRC. Sourcing IRC clients for articles and this list has historically been difficult; for old clients, sources may be out of print and/or only available offline. For new clients, typically nothing is written about them in independent publications. It takes time to find sources, be patient. But please do not add a client to this list without independent reliable sources, because it will be subject to deletion.

The table under "Release history" has an error I can't figure out. It's pretty visible. Would someone better versed in this take a look? Thanks. Jessicapierce (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Resolved.) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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It seems strange to be linking to Wikipedia:Verifiability in the lead of this article; therefore, I'm going to remove that link. There's also a link to someone's personal website in the list – especially considering no other item in the list has an external link, I'm going to remove that too. Please let me know if you object to either of these changes here. Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 11:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ircii had the original xdcc script authored by some idiot whose name slips me 158.59.127.130 (talk) 20:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adiirc irc-client is missing from the page, here's the homepage of the client: https://www.adiirc.com/ . Earg (talk) 22:55, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adiirc is not missing, it fails the selection criteria for inclusion. For starters, it has no own article on the English-language Wikipedia. Without such article, it can not be included. Sorry. The Banner talk 23:23, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]