Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ikonboard
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- 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. Cirt (talk) 17:04, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ikonboard
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Seemingly non-notable software. No coverage in
ping 20:10, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply
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- Note: This debate has been included in the ping 20:11, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of this article is based on forum posts, but it does have a source that passes ping 23:33, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: I'm a former developer of Ikonboard, later Ikonforums. It's true that this software was once widely used. Searches for Ikonboard will still generate hundreds of thousands of hits. Mostly running the popular (and more or less last) releases of Ikonboard, 3.1.2a and 3.1.3. It's now mostly just a cult hit. The original creator of Ikonboard later went on to found [omg plz] 13:23, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- (Weak) Keep: As per ^demon I'm also a former developer of Ikonboard. I think that historically Ikonboard had notability and as the book link suggests it used to be a very popular software competing with other software which is still notable. That said these days it is nowhere near as notable as it once was, in my opinion ownership battles and mis-management affected development and lost many of its users. The article has some independent interviews to provide third-party sourcing, unfortunately some third-party sites such as swarf.net have ceased operating. The web archive is the only reliable method of recording official announcements as ownership of the ikonboard.com domain appears to have been lost. I doubt it will be possible to provide any reliable third-party sourcing of any future development. I would suggest the article remains semi-protected though it would appear much of the IP based editing/vandalism has been done by the current developer ]
- Keep but should be refactored to focus on the software, not on the people behind it. Take out the "it is believed" cruft; let people make their own decisions from facts that can be cited. GreenReaper (talk) 15:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. It's old, and not really used any more, but it definitely held a place of great relevance in the forum software community once upon a time. It was the only free bulletin board that offered a robust feature set comparable to that of paid solutions at the time. 205.215.210.10 (talk) 17:45, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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