Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FBReader

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 merger to List of E-book software. Ignoring the inappropriate attacks on the nominator, the nominator asks the proper policy question: are there reliable sources that provide significant coverage of the subject. First, the subject is the reader so the links to the author (or his personal website or whatever) are irrelevant. Wikipedia is not a source to market or advertise or spread the word for independent open source software; it's to report on software of that type if reliable sources have found it notable (i.e. we're going to behind the eight ball on certain subjects, so be it). The volume of coverage is irrelevant considering that sites like this are not independent reliable sources and the editors arguing solely on volume do not seem to have reviewed the material in line with policy. The evidence supports that the reader exists and it seems like it's mostly trivial mentions (one of many E-book reader software) but that's not the same as significant coverage. The history of the program itself (i.e. the material in the article that isn't going to be a mere trivial mention elsewhere) comes from (1) this source (a dead link to the software's website so not independent); (2) this source (a 10-year online bulletin board) and two links to GitHub which don't actually say a word. Removing that, we have a list of features based off two reviews [1][2] both of which only re-hash the same information that can be placed in a mention at the List of E-book readers page. Ricky81682 (talk) 01:44, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus to overturn to no consensus with original result retained per Deletion review. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 08:02, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]