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 keep‎. The consensus of participants is this article can be improved through editing, better sourcing and, perhaps, a page title change and that deletion is unnecessary. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:54, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of virtualization development (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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It is not at all clear what anything in this article has to do with Virtualization or "Virtualization development" which is not defined in the article or even the article it links to (which I have also opened an AFD for). This appears to mostly consist of WP:OR and I don't think there's any way of cleaning it up or establishing notability as it is completely unclear what the article is even supposed to be about. If not deleted, I believe this needs to be moved to "Timeline of computer virtualization" or something similar and will require a complete rewrite. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Technology, Computing, and Lists. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:08, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Reads like a personal analysis but AfD is not for cleanup. Orientls (talk) 15:22, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Given that the topic of the article is itself unclear, I'm not sure how it can be cleaned up, which is why I think it just needs to be deleted. If someone wants to create a similar article in the future it would require a new name, topic, and content, hence there's no reason to preserve this. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - The intent of the article is clear: a timeline of virtualization technologies, mirroring the history section of Virtualization. However, more could be done to highlight the relevance of each development to virtualization, particularly in the 60s and 70s. I think a name change could be justified ('Timeline of virtualization technology' perhaps? Compare with other related lists), and the article is currently suffering from WP:SYNTH - but there is no lack of sources on exactly this topic. Here are a couple from a preliminary search, and from the other article:

• "1.1.1. Brief History of Virtualization". Oracle VM - User's Guide for Release 3.0.3. Oracle. June 2012.
• "What is virtualization?". RedHat. 2 March 2018.
• Linda Hammer; Ken Donoghue (2019). Virtualization (PDF) (4 ed.). For Dummies. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-119-59586-1.
• Rodríguez-Haro, Fernando; Freitag, Felix; Navarro, Leandro; Hernánchez-sánchez, Efraín; Farías-Mendoza, Nicandro; Guerrero-Ibáñez, Juan Antonio; González-Potes, Apolinar (2012-01-01). "A summary of virtualization techniques". Procedia Technology. The 2012 Iberoamerican Conference on Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. 3: 267–272. doi:10.1016/j.protcy.2012.03.029. ISSN 2212-0173.
• An Introduction to Virtualization Archived 2020-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, January 2004, by Amit Singh
• Allison Randal (6 February 2020). "The Ideal Versus the Real: Revisiting the History of Virtual Machines and Containers". ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 53 (1). doi:10.1145/3365199.

Tule-hog (talk) 20:00, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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