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 as a directory of links. May indeed be useful, but that does not also mean encyclopedic. Pastordavid (talk) 11:26, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of state machine CAD tools (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This is a list of external links which violates "Wikipedia's purpose is not to include a comprehensive list of external links related to each topic." in WP:EL. Also look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of free Go programs Anshuk (talk) 05:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I do not believe that this is a "comprWeehensive list". Also, it is rather apparent that the list is useful to some people. Although I was the one that created the page - I did not create the list of links. I moved the links from State machine, because it was clutering that page. I will post a little notice on that page's talk page. More thought should be put into this before deciding that the page isn't appropriate. Therefore tentative keep. Fresheneesz (talk) 06:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete(nominator). Wikipedia is not yellow pages per WP:NOT#DIR. -- Anshuk (talk) 06:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your yellow pages argument does not apply. However WP:NOT#a repository of links does apply. Fresheneesz (talk) 19:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Not very encyclopedic and even less useful than a Freshmeat search. I never saw the term "CAD tool" being used for finite state machine library (which is what many links are). If there is to be such a list it should first provide structured info what are the major techniques used to model FSMs, what tools represent them and links to literature. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 23:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, Provided the links on the page are reviewed for their usefulness; not so much as an independant source of information, but as an appendix to other pages. As many of the free tools are supplied with additional information like worked examples, the page may serve as an index to it, thereby certainly contributing to the subject. Perhaps the page should better be transferred into a template, which is less likely to be polluted by spam. WimdeValk (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Evil Spartan (talk) 02:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep (slightly weak) I can see how this information can be useful. Further, it used to be part of State_machine and was moved off to reduce clutter on that page. Personally, I think it needs to be cleaned up either way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Santos (talk • contribs) 07:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Keeping this fresh will be nearly impossible. But it's darn useful. Hobit (talk) 08:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This is a directory listing. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 00:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Wikipedia is not a directory and it is also not a place to put linkspam. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 05:27, 23 December 2007 (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.