The result was Delete. I have checked the edit histories of contributors and notice there are a fair number of new editors, with minimal edits, to this debate. If this occurs in future please indicate them with ((spa)). User:Edtropolis is now indefinitely blocked. However, this is not a vote, and it is the weight of argument that must be considered. Although this seems a commendable subject, it is not, according to wikipedia's particular requirements, a notable commendable subject that can be shown as such with convincing verifiable sources. Although Bdushaw has put a coherent case, FrozenPurpleCube and B. Wolterding have pointed to considerations that outweigh it. There is no objection to valid information from this article being included in any other relevant articles. Tyrenius 01:54, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Stub on non-notable Linux distribution. Chealer 04:35, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Victor
I note that Chealer has recently gone through most of the distribution articles at Comparison_of_Linux_distributions with various fixes. Most of those articles are completely unsourced stubs, hence would qualify as non-notable. So why does OpenPsion get the special treatment? Given the plethora of linux distributions (and articles about them), OpenPsion is at least uniquely identified with Psion devices. As I say, there is a larger issue here; Wikipedia does not seem likely to tolerate the deletion of 90% of the articles on linux distributions... But P.S. I see that many of these articles are indeed up for deletion. Bdushaw 22:36, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Me again... I've just been going over the Wikipedia policies for deletion and notability. I would first like to point out that when this article was first nominated for deletion, that it would have been helpful to state more clearly the reasons why. About half of this discussion above could have been avoided if we had had a more specific starting point; not all of us are versed in what "notable" means to Wikipedians (we should be, true, but you know...). I also point out that there was been no attempt to fix or correct the article before nominating for deletion, per policy. Before deleting, a preferred option is to merge, and indeed a consensus above seems to be to merge - where I don't know yet, but we would have been better off having a merge discussion prior to the delete discussion. Nor was there a warning about notability posted ahead of time. The process in nominating this article for deletion has been flawed, alas. I think I will post a message to Chealer asking him to include a better description of his reasons for nominating articles for deletion; a simple cut and paste blurb would suffice. Lastly, at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes, I noted "Programming languages are notable if somewhat widely used; Google is a reasonable test", and in other places where the number of google hits was accepted as a reason to justify notability. Openpsion gets 992 google hits; Psilinux 502 hits - does that then make it notable? Let's keep the article for now and work to merge it to an as-yet-undetermined more appropriate place. Bdushaw 02:25, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]