Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of free disk cloning soft

:{{la|List of free disk cloning soft}} ([{{fullurl:List of free disk cloning soft|wpReason={{urlencode:AfD discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of free disk cloning soft}}&action=delete}} delete]) – (View AfD)(View log)

Directory/how-to material. Apparently created with the intention of comparing various free programs so that people can choose which one to use. While not a bad idea, it's not encyclopedic. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 14:31, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

:And by "apparently", I mean the comment 'Someday I'll convert this article to "Comparison"' from the talk page. ~ JohnnyMrNinja 14:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Per Marasmusine on this article's talk page. Debate (talk) 14:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
• Merge into Disk cloning. This is not notable on its own. Merenta (talk) 00:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

:*This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:03, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete as a directory and a how-to. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 23:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep This page is five days old. We have many software comparisons and, while this one needs work (did I mention it was five days old), it has the potential to be a useful guide to readers. The scope should be limited to tools that have wikipedia pages, possibly broadened to include proprietary tools, and should be patterned other, more mature comparisons (once again, this is only five days old). --Karnesky (talk) 02:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
• I could see a refactoring and renaming to List of disk cloning software making sense, if that is workable. JohnnyMrNinja 06:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment - my concern was with the listing of possibly non-notable software. I've nothing against the presence of a list per se. I'm neutral on this one. Marasmusine (talk) 09:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. Why isn't it List of free disk cloning software? Eklipse (talk) 18:49, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Userfy at least until they figure out if this is a list, or a comparison, and what the proper name of it should be, and what all they are going to include, etc. Wrs1864 (talk) 03:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

:*comment by "userfy at least", I meant that the information should not be lost, so if not kept, please userfy. Also apparently, the name of this article has been changed to List of free disk cloning software. I still think the name should be "comparison" rather than "list", and I see no reason it should be resticted to "free" (as in beer, or as in FOSS?) Wrs1864 (talk)

• Merge per Merenta. J293339 (talk) 19:02, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep/move to List of disk cloning software and make "free" a column. There are plenty of software comparisons and this can/should be one more. gren グレン 09:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep this useful page, although hopefully with improved sources. As noted above, we have plenty of such comparisons and many are encyclopedic.  Frank  |  talk  13:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

: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.