The result was redirect to C standard library. Relevant policy is WP:CFORK. We shouldn't carry articles that cover the same subject under different titles so combining (or in cases where its already covered redirecting) content is a standard outcome and doesn't require an AFD. Arguably if there needed to be a discussion this should have been at RFD but we seem to have attracted enough knowledable input here to reach a consensus Spartaz Humbug! 04:09, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This article has been replaced with a redirect for a while until some editor came saying that it must necessarily go through the AFD process. So here is the request. The rationale to delete this article is that almost all its content is duplicated across several other articles, namely C dynamic memory allocation (malloc, free, calloc, realloc), C miscellaneous operations (qsort, bsearch, ato*, strto*, rand, srand), C program control operations (system, getenv, abort, exit, atexit), C mathematical operations (abs, labs, div, ldiv), stddef.h (NULL, size_t). Itoa as a nonstandard function is currently not included anywhere. The splitting of the article was the result of recent initiative to reorganize the articles about C standard library (you may see the discussion which was the starting point). Due to the fact that the organization is almost complete and this page clearly does not fit into the new structure by duplicating the content, I suggest this article to be replaced speedy replaced with a redirect to C standard library. 1exec1 (talk) 21:52, 31 October 2011 (UTC) 1exec1 (talk) 21:52, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
strncmp
- compares specific number of bytes in two strings" (yes (strncmp) was a poor article before, but now the redirect is useless - unless you want to leave wikipedia (the "merger" has included a lot of external links instead of mergeing the articles). Btw. the article Itoa the nominator says he couldnt fine a place to redirect, whats the solution to that - making it a redirect to C miscellaneous operations (without mergeing or mention the name of the redirect on the target). Christian75 (talk) 23:13, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]stdlib.h
and the impact it has had on computer programming or society as opposed to a transcription of the C language specification? I would believe those exists for the topics "C standard library" and "printf
", but I'm doubtful they exists for stdlib.h
. —Ruud 01:03, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]stdlib.h
? My book on C++ only contains a one sentence description, followed buy a list of function prototypes with one-sentence descriptions. That can be covered in C standard library, but isn't enough warrant its own article. An encyclopedia is supposed to summarize knowledge from different sources, but here I don't see how we would just end up duplicating http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf . —Ruud 11:18, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
stdlib.h
- as opposed to the whole C standard library - and can be used to expand the article beyond a size that would be manageable as a simple section of C standard library? Also, you still did not address or rebut my 1st and 2nd points above. —Ruud 20:49, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]The purpose of this AfD, at the request of Christian75, is to be to reach a consensus on whetherEditors may reach a consensus that although a topic meets this criterion, it is not appropriate for a stand-alone article.
stdlib.h
should be a stand-alone article or covered as a section in another article. —Ruud 21:17, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]