Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Event Driven Language

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 merge to IBM Series/1. I handled the merge to the IBM Series/1 article JodyB _talk 21:26, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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No evidence that this programming language is notable. Wikipedia is not a directory of programming languages. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:24, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to IBM Series/1. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 05:26, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This event driven language was an important precurser to modern object oriented architecture. Hit the library at your local University's data center and you can find the appropriate operating manuals. Deleting or merging this article serves no purpose except to make it harder to analyze the history of this important and notable chapter of software development. I added 4 ref's, textbooks etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcwiki9 (talk • contribs) 06:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:42, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge - This AfD is completely unwarranted. The article already has a merge proposal that suggested merging into IBM Series/1. The merge could have been performed without the trouble of an AfD. This toopic, while not suggesting to me that it has any great importance in computing due to the lack of results in Google Books and Scholar (although this may be due to a lack of knowledge in this area of computing), is undoubtly important in the context of the System/1, and the inclusion of its content in that article will aid understanding. Rilak (talk) 06:59, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

@ all the above: The merge tag was added after I nominated it for deletion [1], the nearest major university is 250 miles from where I live so I can't just pop over there and look this up, and simply claiming something is automatically or "undoubtedly" notable doesn't actually prove anything. If I look around I could also find an instruction manual for the specific model of chain saw I use, and without even going to a university at that, that doesn't prove anything as far as establishing notability. The new sources look pretty weak, especially the one identified as "unknown article." Beeblebrox (talk) 18:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I said it is undoubtly important in the context of the System/1. So it should be merged there. How you managed to twist my words into me claiming that the article needs to be kept because its the most important programmming language ever is beyond me. Perhaps replying to each induvidual editor is a good idea? Rilak (talk) 01:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.