Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Id (Unix)

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The result was delete. Noting I'll be happy to move this to draft space if a consensus develops to transwiki this somewhere. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:21, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Id (Unix)

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This is a trivial UNIX command line utility. The article is currently a manual on how to use it, and I don't see how we can create a policy-compliant article on this. There really isn't anything we can say beyond what's already in List of Unix commands. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:12, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Musa Talk 03:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Musa Talk 03:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Many of these Unix commands are all borderline WP:NOTMANUAL violations. I think it would be better to transwiki them en masse to Wikibooks in one complete book, than to delete them one-by-one. This should probably be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing first, though. —Ruud 09:31, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what the answer is but I don't beleive that dealing with this one article at a time is the roght approach. These two templates give you an idea of the current scope of coverage of individual commands and utilities. See also List of DOS commands. ~Kvng (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and mention and move elsewhere as the current article is currently questionable for the independent software notability. SwisterTwister talk 08:04, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I generally agree with Kvng that we should find a general solution for this kind of article. But some commands are more notable, such as those that have become associated with a wider arena, for example, uucp lead to UUCPNET. Similarly, some not-so-obvious UNIX commands have proved useful enough that they have been imitated on many other operating systems. I think these better-known commands deserve an article. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:21, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Jc3s5h: I don't think anyone would want to delete the article on UUCP for exactly the reason you give. But we wouldn't want separate entries for uucp, uux and uucico. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 18:43, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Nominator is right. Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:NOTMANUAL are not being satisfied here. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:46, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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