Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CityDesk

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 15:32, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

CityDesk

Was posted as {db|advertising}, but has no peacock language. Information about a product for sale is not necessarily advertising, so I changed it to a VfD.--64.254.131.93 21:02, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

• Keep It is not advertising, it is linked from List of content management systems, as are a bunch of other CMSs. CityDesk cannot be removed unless they all are. Also, this language has a CityDesk page: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityDesk which appears to be fine. 137.186.22.250 15:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Please note that anonymous votes are not counted in VFD debates. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:29, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
    • To quote the vfd-header "Anonymous and new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their votes may (my emphasis) be discounted, especially if they seem to be made in bad faith." Anon votes are not automatically discounted. Sjakkalle 08:55, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Undecided, but if this article doesn't get fleshed out into a real article in the next few days, I will change this to a delete. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:29, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless hugely Expanded. This article tells me absolutely nothing. Well, it does, but that's like telling me Microsoft Word is a word processor by Microsoft. States the (fairly) obvious, but no detail. It's got even less content than a Google Directory entry would. So if it's hugely expanded into a useful article it can remain, if not it goes. Master Thief Garrett 22:24, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Personal bias: I'm interested in content management systems. On the other hand, anybody can release yet another tiny, or fork from one of the large, open source PHP scripts, so I approached this with skepticism, but it turns out it isn't such a beast. Keep it. This 2002 weblog post suggest it's quite notable in that software giant Macromedia subsequently released something very similar. Any Macromedia software product would clear the bar; why not this very close forerunner from a little guy, which seems to have a respectable user base? Samaritan 23:41, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, needs definite expansion. 80,000 Google hits - appears to be notable, [1]. Megan1967 05:22, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Concur with Master Thief Garrett -- no useful link-tos, but might be the Next Sliced Bread. --Simon Cursitor 07:00, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: advertising IS NOT a WP:CSD. Meelar (talk)
• Keep per Samaritan. Kappa 18:58, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I don't know if CityDesk itself deserves an entry, but Fog Creek Software, the vendor, probably does. It has gained quite a bit of fame in the IT community for founder Joel Spolsky's blog Joel On Software. Firebug 20:13, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, is relevant to content management systems in that it is one of perhaps two client-side packages available.

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