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 wasKeep and moved to MPack (software) as per suggestion with Mpack to become a dab page. Gnangarra 13:59, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
nonenglish original research [1] Vzmi 00:16, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - wrong language. --Ye Olde Luke 01:14, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete then translate - Delete it, then have the creator of the page ask someone to translate it if they really want it. --Hirohisat 01:21, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, don't bother translating. It's not only in French, it's encyclopedic, too. 24.160.241.190 01:44, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Don't you mean unencyclopedic? Were it encyclopedic, it might be worth translating. --Charlene 02:23, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete then translate per Hirohisat. — Wenli(contribs) 01:53, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is a consensus at wikipedia that says that no article is better than a poorly translated article. Since a poorly translated article is better than a non translated article, and a poorly translated is worse than no article, then a non translated article is worse than no article. For that reason this should be deleted.--†Sir James Paul† 02:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep For non-English articles, your first stop should be Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English, not AfD. User:Leebo has listed this article there. Anyway I barely read French but it looks like a notable piece of software; see BBC article: [2]. If kept it should probably be at Mpack (software) as there's some electronic device and a village Mpack, Senegal by the same name. cab 03:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. Here's an English source. Looks like a piece of software used for distributing malware. Interesting, but I'm not sure this is particularly notable. Zetawoof(ζ) 03:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete wrong language. OysterGuitarst 03:49, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete because even by translating that article it will still not be an encyclopedia article. -Yupik 11:47, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- please note that I have rewritten this article from the source provided by cab. Like others I felt the article wasn't appropriately written, but as Wikipedia should have an article on this subject, I rewrote it. JulesH 15:34, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep after reading the translated and sourced version. I'm a little disappointed that the immediate response to an untranslated article is to delete it, especially when it's in the proper process for translation. The BBC source is a good start, but not enough on its own. I'll do some research too. LeeboT/C 15:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep reads like a perfect stub article on a somewhat notabale subject, in its present form. To the nominator and the people who asked for deletion because it was not English: If the article existed on Wikipedia in another language, speedy deletion criteria A2 applies. Otherwise, the proper procedure is to tag it as non-english, list it for possible translation, and only bring it to AFD after two weeks have passed with no progress. --Pekaje 15:53, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair to the nominator, he was clearly able to understand the original French text enough to see that it was unsourced, apparent original research, that would not have been worth translating. JulesH 19:18, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, now that it's an English article and not original research Bigwyrm
Keep, Very Notable Article, I'm a SYS admin for VideoSift and we got hacked with this early this week. There is a dearth of resources about this online at the moment but it is the next big virus exploit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.165.225 (talk) 21:46, July 3, 2007
Keep, Notable, and important. I'll see about further sources and expansion. EAi 01:14, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've just added some more detail and a link to the PandaLabs Report that initially uncovered MPack. I think this is a fairly good article now that goes into as much depth as I can find on the topic (without getting overly technical) EAi 01:42, 4 July 2007 (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.