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.
Keep. Even though a Google search on the term "Spacewalk Software" only generates 494 hits, still, within the Linux software development industry niche that this software serves, it appears to be noteworthy. Another consideration is the fact that this software is a 'systems level' type of software, so the only people that it will be notable to is software engineers. True, the Linux software development community may not be as large as the Windows software development community, but it is still a noteworthy community, as it represents perhaps only one of two viable alternatives to Windows software that is out there. The other viable alternative being the Mac operating system. Relative to the size of the community, and bearing in mind the fact that it is a specialized 'systems level' type of software, I think 494 Google hits is definitely noteworthy within the noteworthy niche community that it serves. The Spacewalk website itself appears to be a very highly developed site, but the article itself seems to still be a 'stub article', and could use some fleshing out. Thus I recommend Keep, and I would add, please flesh out a little. Scott P. (talk) 19:15, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to me that software engineers are a noteworthy community, and that they deserve the ability to use Wikipedia as a reference work, just as much as say physicists or doctors. I was once a software engineer myself, and it seems to me that by removing this article about such an open source free Linux software program, you might be doing software engineers a disservice. By keeping it, Wikipedia loses nothing, and merely enhances its value to its users. The article is clearly not placed as an advertisement for the purpose of financial gain, since the program is freeware. Scott P. (talk) 19:59, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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