- 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 delete. Unsourced contested content, deletion is mandatory per WP:V. Sandstein 12:15, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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I have a strong feeling this is WP:MADEUP. Of course, the practice of rearranging files exists, but I've never heard anyone call it "file grooming" and a web search turned up very little. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 18:14, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:22, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
- Delete. The are a couple of web sources out there giving this def (though they might have copied it from Wikipedia) but others use it with a different meaning [1] or yet another one [2] [3] or yet another one [4] (ok, this might be a generalization of the previous one). Anyway, the sources that use the meaning given in this Wikipedia article [5] don't go beyond WP:DICTDEF, so it's hard to see how this page is justified; the same actually applies for the alternative meanings I found. After deletion, it might make sense to redirect to hierarchical storage management, because most RS seem to use it in that context. Someone not using his real name (talk) 05:53, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
- By the way, I've created File grooming (disambiguation) with the definitions I've actually found in reliable sources, although I do feel this is a bit of a cheat because those articles linked don't yet cover either topic. I suggest moving that dab to the present title once (i.e. without "disambiguation" in it) after the AfD completes. Someone not using his real name (talk) 02:47, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- After more googling, I can't find any other sources besides the documentation for that Novell product to use with the 2nd meaning so probably it should just redirect to hierarchical storage management (which is unfortunately a disaster zone right now). Someone not using his real name (talk) 03:10, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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