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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 00:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FastFormat[edit]

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Also nominating:

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I cannot find significant independent coverage for these software libraries.

FastFormat is mentioned in a book by its author, Wilson's Extended STL book (not available online), but only in passing on p. 53 where the Pantheios logging API is discussed, and another passing mention on p. 55 in the same context. The only in-depth coverage is in a two part article from Wilson in ACCU's journal Overload, which is still a primary source, even if not self-pub. There's another mention in google books here, but it's accidental, in the screenshot of Akregator. There are some blog entries about it too, but nothing else in WP:RS that I can find.

I'm also nominated VOLE for similar reasons: only a passing mention in Wilson's book, and the references are actually WP:SELFPUB in this case.

The creator of these articles, Special:Contributions/Jjcolotti seems to have significant WP:COI. He also created Wilson's bio, and the related articles on Pantheios, VOLE, and (based on the same day timestamp) likely Synesis Software too, which got deleted as A7. Pcap ping 10:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Pcap ping 19:46, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

* I've rewritten my nomination because it was hard to follow. Pcap ping 10:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There seem to be a fairly large variety of different products that use the name Fastformat, but hardly anything I've seen in the first several pages of news, books, and scholar searches is unmistakably about these C++ libraries. Looking for VOLE is even harder: you'll find rodents, rodents, and more rodents. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:16, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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