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 keep and rewrite, as there is no consensus on whether to delete the article, but there does appear to be consensus that the article in its current form is unacceptable. It appears that rewriting has already started. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 01:45, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image conversion[edit]

This was PRODded as a "non-notable phenomenon", but since image conversion happens all the time, I'm not so sure. Consider this a "25% delete, 75% merge to some topic somewhere" !vote. I'm a little bit confused - would this topic be too self-explanatory to be needed at all? And if not so, is it merge-worthy to some more informative article, or should it stay until we have something substantial on document conversion in general, or what? I'm sorry I can't make a too coherent argument for or against... and moreso, I'm even more confused because I myself instructed the article creator to work on "general" topics before tackling ReaSoft Image Converter, so I may have dug this hole myself and I don't know, in my current mental state, how to handle this. So I honestly think something should be done, but I'd definitely want to hear what the community has to say. wwwwolf (barks/growls) 13:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment As is, it's verging on WP:NOT#MANUAL. We don't do how-tos, per se, here. On the other hand a general discussion of this topic could cover several aspects such as histograms and lossless vs. lossy formats. Some of that is probably in other articles, though, so I'm not sure what the holes are here. --Dhartung | Talk 13:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, at least provisionally, and move to something like image conversion software, because it seems to be exclusively concerned with electronically stored images. My unscientific impression is that this sort of software is encountered fairly frequently. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:06, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, it's a howto as it stands. WillOakland (talk) 21:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Right now it's a howto, but I think it could be rewritten as an encyclopedic article with the same title. J kasd 05:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral As stated above, in it's current form it is a how to. Rewrite it to something more encyclopedia like and I think it would be good. Tabor (talk) 02:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep I have made some updates to the article, specifically fixing the how-to feel in an attempt to make it more encyclopedic. I think it has enough merit to save it, unless there is another article that has the same information. HatlessAtless (talk) 22:05, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The user who started this article did so as a way to back-door his "ReaSoft" spam articles as "examples" of image conversion. If this topic is notable as a means of explaining how images are converted between formats (without being a section of a broader topic), then it can be recreated from a much more broad and useful beginning than the current incarnation. ju66l3r (talk) 05:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article is currently in a different incarnation per my attempts to change it. It no longer has any content related to ReaSoft. Any suggestions on other content to include to improve it? HatlessAtless (talk) 13:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While a good article of the same title could be written, I don't think any of the current content could be useful for that (other than words such as "a" and "the", of course ;-) --Itub (talk) 13:02, 12 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.