Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Microsoft Calendar

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A degraded version was included with Windows 3.1x. gacelperfinian^{(talk in - error? Start [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gacelperfinian&action=edit a new topic])} 00:52, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:37, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:37, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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:Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

:Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e decker^talk 04:29, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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:Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ♔ 05:28, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

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• Keep. Topic seems notable with a source. I don't see an explained reason from deletion. Caseeart (talk) 07:57, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
• Comment-though the nominator didn't provide a clear rationale, this article lacks significant independent coverage to establish notability. The only source is from Microsoft and not independent. I would normally suggest a merge of smaller os feature programs like this, but the merge target is unclear. Windows 3.x doesn't really work because calendar was apparently also in earlier versions.Dialectric (talk) 13:21, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
• Redirect to Microsoft_Windows#Early_versions. Tricky, but I didn't find significant, independent coverage for this in Google Books or in databases. I think it remains a worthwhile search term. If it is primarily affiliated with 3.x, it should be redirected there, but I think it's generally better to link to the main Windows article if the program crosses version boundaries from 1.x into 3.x. It's listed in the "Early versions" section of that article. I think anything else that needs to be said there (and can be sourced) can be said briefly or with a footnote. (For the record, Microsoft Calendar is different from Windows Calendar in that the former was in early Windows and the latter was in Windows Vista. Haven't found anything that has confirmed that "Microsoft Calendar" is the official name over just "Calendar", though. Still, I think the redirect is best.) czar ♔ 14:45, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
• : Given the understandable confusion potential, would some sort of quick disambiguation page for the two be a sensible placement? In any case, I was unable to find reliable, secondary sources which evidence the notability of this feature, and would prefer some flavor of redirect, merge, or disambiguation against Windows Calendar rather than keep or pure deletion, unless more is found to demonstrate notability. --j⚛e decker^talk 17:51, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

::: It's a little confusing, but I think a dab page would be overkill. Once the reader would choose a page, there would still be next to no information on any "calendar" since there's little secondary sourcing about either calendar. WCal→Vista, and MCal→Windows (or History of Windows) should be sufficient czar ♔ 18:43, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

:::: *nods* --j⚛e decker^talk 15:36, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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::::: {{ping|gacelperfinian|Caseeart|Dialectric|p=}}, thoughts on a redirect? czar ⨹ 01:12, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

:::::: Unlikely. Putting redirect (let's say in) Microsoft Windows will lower hopes on the researcher, like Windows Calendar, I cannot see any calendar-related entries there. - gacelperfinian^{(talk in - error? Start [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gacelperfinian&action=edit a new topic])} 10:59, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

:::::: {{ping|Codename Lisa|p=}} may sort things out. - gacelperfinian^{(talk in - error? Start [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gacelperfinian&action=edit a new topic])} 11:02, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

:::::::The ideas of re-direct or merge don't sound so bad, although this topic may need to be summarized and will loose details. It could possibly be merged into Microsoft Schedule Plus or Microsoft Outlook since these programs superseded the calendar. I am not so knowledgeable on this topic and was not able to locate secondary sources, that might be because it is about an old version of windows thus making it difficult to located the references. Caseeart (talk) 06:39, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

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