Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cul (software)

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 merge to respective Vocaloid platform article. czar 22:57, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a mass deletion nomination for a first batch of the individual voices for the voice synthesis software Vocaloid. All of these voices fail WP:GNG, according to the sources cited in them, which are generally not independent and/or reliable and/or in-depth. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oliver (software), where it was suggested that this is a problem of this entire class of articles. Sandstein 14:26, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Entertainment and Software. Sandstein 14:26, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music and Fictional elements. Sparkl^talk 13:54, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge all and redirect to their respective Vocaloid platforms. These are functionally analogous to tools in Photoshop. The company has chosen to anthropomorphize them in marketing for sales reasons, but they are no different to picking a different tool in Photoshop or a different instrument in GarageBand. Axem Titanium (talk) 18:33, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you are arguing for a Redirect solution, you should specify what target they should redirect to. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:34, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Respective Vocaloid platforms means Vocaloid (software) or Vocaloid 2. I'd support such a merge, as I don't think those, errr, equivalents of a game expansion/software add-ons merit stand alone articles (per WP:GNG), but they are searchable terms that should redirect to a short section in the articles about their relevant, notable main softwares. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:08, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Piotrus, some of these articles referred to Vocaloid 4 so this closure will likely have to be handled article-by-article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:16, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not certain what the benefits of merging this content is. Much of it is vapid marketing nonsense or trivia. Sandstein 17:28, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge all and redirect per above. — Jumbo T (talk) 10:25, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge all per above. Agree that these is all just one piece of software with several updates / add-ons, and they can be summarized more succinctly. Wikipedia is WP:NOTDIR and we don't create separate articles for every release. Shooterwalker (talk) 18:21, 1 October 2022 (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.