The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was merged to List of antivirus software by Ohconfucius. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:05, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of antivirus software[edit]

Whilst this may be useful for some, Wikipedia is not a guide, this 'article' is not encyclopaedic. Россавиа ^Диалог 23:05, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak keep~~. So long as it only contains encyclopedic information culled from the linked articles then it seems legitimate. There are quite a lot of articles which are just tables of information from other articles presented for easy reference. This does not seem to be frowned upon as a general principle and I can't see anything specifically wrong with this one although whether it should be called a "comparison" is questionable. --DanielRigal (talk) 23:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as Wikipedia is not a how-to. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 03:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. DanielRigal makes a good point about the questionableness of this article being called a comparison - if anything, it needs to be expanded before it (fully) qualifies as a comparison article. It's more than a simple list though. That said, I fail to see how this article qualifies as a how-to, and thus deserves deletion. Wrldwzrd89^talk 13:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. I believe the information presented is relevant to the articles from which this page is linked --- that is, if the data were presented as part of the encyclopedic article, it would not merit deletion. Perhaps merge with the article, or add to the "List", in which case you have a list with descriptions. . . which is what this appears to be. Hmm. Maybe hearing from the author would be a good thing. Renaissongsman (talk) 14:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of antivirus software. This information is useful, I just don't think it needs its own article. J.delanoy ^gabs analyze 14:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merged to List of antivirus software per WP:BOLD. No worthy of independent existence. Ohconfucius (talk) 04:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just undid the redirect because the AfD is still ongoing and we need to keep the AfD tag on the page. I have no objection to merge and redirect being the outcome of the AfD. As soon as it is official the redirect can go back on. --DanielRigal (talk) 11:29, 5 June 2008 (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.