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The result was Redirect to Libre (disambiguation). (and move disambig to primary). Nothing to merge—all secondary sourced content is already in related articles. (non-admin closure) czar ♔ 15:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Libre[edit]

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The article is supposedly about the word libre. However, unlike some other articles about words (e.g. [[Fuck]]), it focuses mostly on rather narrowly chosen concepts behind the word (those relating to the various openness movements), rather than usage and cultural significance of the word itself.

Second, very few of the sources used in this article even contain the word "libre". This strongly suggests that this article is pushing an original idea, or at least promoting an unpopular idea (for example that libre is the usual term used to characterise "open" intellectual works, shall we say; in fact, it is rather rare).

Lastly, topics discussed in this article are also covered in Free software, Free content, Free culture movement, and some other articles, which I think are much better suited for that. Even copy-edited under another title this article would be redundant to them.

TL;DR version: WP:POV/WP:UNDUE WP:SYNTH/WP:OR WP:COATRACK WP:CFORK, unsalvageable. — Keφr 12:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:48, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:49, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete agree with nominator. I looked through the article's history; in 2010 it was a redirect page. About 2011, a user turned it into what appears to be an WP:ESSAY with focus on aspects such as open-source issues. The 'references' that I checked did not contain the word 'libre'. There is a Libre (disambiguation) page, and the top line of that points to this article. My original thought was to turn this into a disambiguation page, but there is already such a page, so in my view, it makes sense to delete it.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 19:51, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Gratis versus libre (where appropriate), with which it seems to have a great deal of overlap, redirect to the disambig page. Though, as the nom points out, there seems to be a significant amount of straying to other topics and subsequent SYNTH happening that wouldn't be appropriate at that article. AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 00:01, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 11:45, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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