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The result was delete. We don't keep things in AFD to serve as examples. --Coredesat 03:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hacking culture[edit]

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Written specifically as an essay (see WP:AN#Dozens of bad-quality edits as a result of a coursework assignment), full of POV, disconnected trivia, and uncited claims. Doesn't really the address the title of "hacker culture". Prod removed by author, so AfD now. Oli Filth^(talk) 21:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. This seems to be quite well-covered already at Hacker ethic, although some of the references might profitably be transferred and worked into the article. Other than that, this seems like synthesis/original research, which is fine for coursework but poor for Wikipedia. Accounting4Taste 22:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per NPOV. This can be covered in another article. Marlith ^T/C 22:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete from mainspace but keep somewhere(where?) as example of what happens when an article is written academically instead of encyclopedically--victor falk 22:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not sure it's so much an example of "academic" writing, just an example of "bad" writing. There's plenty of "encyclopaedic" articles that are just this bad! Oli Filth^(talk) 23:46, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's true, it's not that bad actually. If nothing else, the layout is much, much better than Hacker ethic. I was more pushing my POV about encyclopedic not academic writing styles. I've been thinking of writing an essay about that, but I wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel. Any tips where I can find something in that gist?--victor falk 10:22, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, essay with some wikification, overlaps with hacker ethic and some other articles. --Dhartung | Talk 01:13, 29 October 2007 (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.