Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Download Accelerator

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was keep.

I count 3 clear "delete" votes, 6 "keep" votes (1 probable troll discounted) and 3 explicit "keep as merge" votes. Based on the comments, the delete votes could be reasonable interpreted as also supporting "redirect" as a second choice. Therefore, I am going to call this one as no concensus on whether this article should be kept as is or kept as merge/redirect to download manager. Any editor may be bold and make that call. Rossami (talk) 06:51, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Download Accelerator

Delete - Appears to be simply an advertisment Refdoc 10:14, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - An advertisement that summarises annoyances and problems? Juko 11:08, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: This was apparently never listed on vfd, so I'm putting it on today's page. —Korath (Talk) 00:00, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete due to NPOV issues. I think an article on download accelerators (in general) would be worthwhile, however. But as it stands this page simply seems to exist in order to knock a commercial product. I don't believe Wikipedia is supposed to be a software review site, though if I'm wrong, please ignore that part of the comment. 23skidoo 00:20, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep/clean. Notable software (speedbit.com) which I'm sure does more harm/spam than good. El_C 01:42, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 03:31, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. —Markaci 2005-04-3 T 03:51 Z
• Keep but add more info about the history of the software, how it works, and other types of download accelerators. --Fuzzball! 17:13, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to download manager. I really don't see much point in having half a dozen or so very similar mini-articles about particular commercial products, when a generic article on the concept can say anything encyclopedic there is to say on the topic. Alai 07:41, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - David Gerard 09:41, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with download manager as most such managers are very much alike (and many of them are also known as accelerators) Radiant_* 12:55, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Concur. Merge. Halidecyphon 21:15, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up/stubbify. bbx 16:38, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• keep Yuckfoo 01:32, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No evidence that this particular piece of software is even slightly significant. Rossami (talk) 03:46, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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