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268:. However it is highly unlikely that it would be written about by journalist of big media as the application lacks the required audience to be profitable to publish in a dead-tree magazine simply because is it a Linux application. I believe that the application has gained a high enough notability by the communities of people which uses a Linux distribution that has a 'keep it simple' philosophy such as Archlinux, Slackware, etc. to validate for an article on wikipedia. I added third party references which shows that the application has indeed been noticed by people in the Linux communities and removed the delete request due to lack of notability/reference. However 291:
I took it here because I still think that it's non-notable software. When it was deleted as spam, it was clearly advertising and POV material. It doesn't have to be long to be spam. For example, an article that states that John Doe is the best runner that has ever lived and has won every race he ever
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was not satisfied and added a delete due to spam tag. The article is still in its very inception(I am slow) and at the time of deletion the article had two sentences, of which one was entirely factual and the other was factual but written in an advertising fashion. One administrator saw fit to delete
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an indiscriminate collection of all information out there. Your argument on Evince doesn't hold because Evince gains notability due to being part of the GNOME project and inclusion in well-known Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. -
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entered is spam. You're taking this as some sort of attack on you. It's nothing against you, but you chose a poor subject to write about. As for references, you have chosen one listing on Linux and another that is in violation of
242:. As a side note I cannot see any personal attacks and the author seem to have a long history with wikipedia (more than 3000 contributions). The software though is in preliminary stage and probable not qualify for an article yet. 263:
nominating the article for deletion has been out for this article since its very inception, first he added delete due to notability/references and demanded notability by world reknown dead-tree magazines such as PC-world on the
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based on what I can gather so far) - I would like to conclude that Zathura is also notable but so far, I don't see evidence for that. Quote from the forum topic:
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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even the author of the software says that there are no reliable sources that have written about it
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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the whole article rather than correct the erroneous wording of the sentence and I
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to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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