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 as per unanimous positive consensus and the absence of deletion requests outside of the nominator. A non-admin closure. And Adoil Descended (talk) 01:07, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Red Screen of Death (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • Stats)

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First and foremost, this article has no sources whatsoever. And never had much of them, and do not get me started on their quality. Originally describing a beta-build curiosity absent from the actual release of Windows Vista, it now lists random error screens of various devices, neither of which seems to be inspired by any of the others; the only shared attribute is the background colour. The only reliable coverage of these phenomena I can imagine would be an internal developer's manual, or just user's manual - but the former is not always available (or existent) and the latter will probably just say something along the lines of "contact technical support".

In short, WP:NN. Keφr (talk) 22:41, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep- working on it.Greg Heffley 22:06, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep – The topic is meeting WP:GNG:

• Significant coverage: Microsoft sees red over blue screen of death
• Significant coverage: Red screen of death?
• Also, here's some links with mentions: [1], [2], [3], [4]. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:39, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This was previously kept at a 2005 AfD see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red screen of death.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 10:43, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment – The article now has two sources in that are comprised of significant coverage. Improvement and expansion of the article is superior to outright deletion. Northamerica1000^(talk) 11:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep It meets WP:NOTE, and in any case, for all we know it may well come back in Windows 8 ... kidding. History2007 (talk) 15:03, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Instead of their famous Blue Screen of Death they changed the color to be red. [5] Was this fixed before Vista was released? I have Vista, and despite my problems with it early on, before they released patches to make it run properly, I never saw a red screen anywhere. Previous Windows did have the blue screen of death quite often though. Dream Focus 14:36, 16 June 2012 (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.