Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Event ID

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 Delete all redirected Event ID to ]Event Viewer Gnangarra 15:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Event ID

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An article about an ID? How is that even encyclopedic? or even necessary? Not to mention it does not pass the our regular test of notability? The event system of different systems might, but the mechanism of indexing the events recorded, don't think so. Moreover, looks like a dicdef. If at all, just a onle line addition to the event system (such as Event Viewer) article will be enough. soum ^talk 12:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

In addition to this, several articles about individual Events have also been created, adding them to the discussion as well. Associated disambig and redirect pages are also listed here, for the sake of the administrator closing the discussion, should the articles get deleted.

The events, by themselves, also fail the notability test. Hardly any mainstream coverage, except for how-to guides and forums. Plus all those articles contain is the description text from the event viewer description, which can be considered a copyvio. Nothing more can hardly be added, without making it a how-to article. In short, the topics are suitable for a troubleshooting manual, not encyclopedia articles. --soum ^talk 13:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Here are the list of articles up for discussion:

Main article

• Event ID

• Delete all per WP:NOT#MANUAL. Stifle (talk) 13:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete all - a baffling array of articles! As Stifle says, Wikipedia is not a manual.-- JediLofty ^{User ¦ Talk} 13:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete all, as per nomination. - TexMurphy (talk) 13:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete all per WP:NOT#MANUAL. No idea what all these Event IDs even are, but I don't think that we could cover them in an encyclopedic fashion. (Note: Some of these also have PRODs on them.) Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 13:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
• Well I already prodded most of the single id articles, so certainly delete those. The creator removed one prod and then seemed to start thinking about the messages on their talk page. No objection to keeping a redirect for Event ID, so I would have waited with the AFD. --Tikiwont (talk) 13:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to Event Viewer; the bunch of specific event ID pages should be deleted though. nneonneo ^talk 17:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

• Redirect Event ID to Event Viewer. The ID information there could be slightly expanded, although the info in this article is not what I would have in mind for that. Delete all of the specific event articles. Wikipedia is not a replication of the Microsoft Tech Support site. --Dhartung | Talk 21:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 19:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete all and Redirect per above.Divinediscourse (talk) 21:02, 19 April 2008 (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.