Wiki143:Articles for deletion/PDFedit

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 keep. John254 02:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

PDFedit

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Free software with no evidence of external notability. Not really much else to say except delete. Isotope23 ^talk 19:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. I dont know notability but i do know i ave seen it in the top lists of practicaly every freewere site. M.V.E.i. 20:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. As I said in my edit summary: It's a remarkable program. I suggest you research your AfDs more.--Oneiros 21:11, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

It may be remarkable, but when I did research this prior to my original PROD, I found no evidence it met our notability criteria. It may be the most wonderful, useful, piece of software in the world, but unless it can be established that it is notable per the criteria, there isn't much basis for a Wikipedia article on the topic.--Isotope23 ^talk 03:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletions. -- KTC 22:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• It should be noted that notability, not popularity, is the basis for inclusion in Wikipedia. In addition, WP:ITSUSEFUL isn't a reason to keep. shoy 22:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. There is a detailed article on Linux.com entitled PDFedit fills hole in the desktop by technology journalist Bruce Byfield. I think this suffices for notability, and renders the article content verifiable. Other sources are surely out there too - I don't know much about computer programs. [Edit] I have added this as a ref. in the article. --TreeKittens 22:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per press coverage & inclusion in many F/OSS distros. --Karnesky 22:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. This is notable enough. • Lawrence Cohen 20:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. It is included in debian - http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pdfedit&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all (possibly in other distros too, but I use only debian, so I am not aware of situation in other distros). Google returns 288000 results for "pdfedit", although probably not all of them mean this software, in first 20 results I found 3 links leading to different software with similar or same name --Mpx 15:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
• Please Keep.This article helps me a lot while looking for pdfeditor for Linux. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.21.245.235 (talk) 23:03, 15 September 2007 (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.