Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of instruction sets

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 redirect to Comparison of instruction set architectures. Randykitty (talk) 13:26, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:NOTDIRECTORY This list gives little or no context. Every processor has an instruction set and we have an abundance of lists of computer processors. There's no organizing principle for this directory list. Wtshymanski (talk) 04:37, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep and prune. From a cursory inspection, there are at least a few articles about actual instruction sets, as opposed to all those other entries about everything under the (computer hardware) sun. There probably are enough to justify a list for navigation purposes, but all the other stuff has to go. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:57, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As Wtshymanski, it's just a big bucket into which ISAs have been dumped. I'm not even sure a more limited list, for navigation purposes, is all that useful; [1] may suffice. Guy Harris (talk) 08:39, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• NOTE - "WP:NOTDIRECTORY" doesn't automatically trump "Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists" as a reason to delete a list. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 08:31, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• KEEP but overhaul to contain only "instruction sets" while moving things you don't keep to other lists and articles, such as "List of microprocessors". Please don't use DELETE as an excuse to save you time, per your recent discussion at List_of_instruction_sets#Shouldn't_this_be_a_table?. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 08:38, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Nominator's comment There would seem to be no point investing effort in something that ought to be deleted anyway, which this discussion will resolve. I've no idea what purpose this list is meant to serve. An 8085 has two more op-codes than an 8080 - are they two "instruction sets" or one? What is the organizing principle of this list? What does the reader need to see here? --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:07, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:01, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:01, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Crufty and in need of cleanup, but that's not a reason to delete it. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:06, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Comparison of instruction set architectures. Seems like a duplicate topic to me. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:45, 6 December 2018 (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.