Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Hello world program examples

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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 08:33, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of Hello world program examples[edit]

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This list could never hope to be a complete list and would be better off linking to Github. This repository appears to be the most complete collection of Hello world examples: [1]. David Condrey ^{log talk} 01:22, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 02:12, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:47, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Nom is so right. There are just too many reasons why this doesn't belong here, not the least of which is that it is certainly not a notable topic. Msnicki (talk) 03:12, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

So that's "too many reasons" and WP:JUSTNOTNOTABLE. Anything resembling a policy-based reason? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NP, Andy. Lacks reliable independent secondary sources treating the subject in depth as required by WP:GNG to demonstrate notability of the topic. The whole list appears to me to be someone's WP:SYNTHESIS, the creation of list that cannot be supported as a topic found in reliable sources. WP is not a WP:CATALOG. Just because it's possible to make such a list, doesn't mean we should have one. Now that you have some policy-based reasons, will you change your !vote? Msnicki (talk) 18:29, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I like it, but it shouldn't be here. Also, there is Hello world/Text - Rosetta Code, which could be referenced by Hello World program TJJFV (talk) 12:10, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added such a link TJJFV (talk) 21:12, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While I like the list, Nom is right. This page could conceivably grow to an astounding size given there are thousands of programming languages. -DevinCook (talk) 08:28, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What Nom said. CerealKillerYum (talk) 14:10, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I've seen no valid reason in the nom and nothing added to it other than "per nom".

Should we have the Hello World article? If so, then we need this list – even if for no other reason that to stop the useful article accumulating that same list yet again. As a list, this is manageable (even if it's not the greatest contribution to human knowledge ever) and it prevents a real loss of quality elsewhere.

Even considered as a list, this meets our requirements. It's a list of a notable concept, where the individual entries are identifiable and enumerable. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Andy Dingley: A Hello World program article should exist if it is notable; discussion of that can be elsewhere. Is there precedent for keeping pages to be a sink for low quality contributions to the benefit of another page or ease of maintenance? An arbitrary example of code for a Hello World program in an arbitrary language is not intrinsically notable. It may be that consensus could be reached for a basis for determining whether a specific example has extrinsic notability. For nearly all of the examples on existing page/list, there is no source/reference and are thus not verifiable for notability, validity nor correctness. — TJJFV (talk) 17:00, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Not an encyclopedic topic, nor encyclopedic in form. An OR cut-and-paste mess. Carrite (talk) 18:33, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as an unnecessary directory full of original research, and there are many ways to write a Hello World program in any given language. Esquivalience ^t 02:32, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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