Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Ruby

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The result was merge‎ to Ruby (programming language) - selectively. Owen× ☎ 22:15, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

History of Ruby

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Should be redirected to Ruby (programming language). Pretty much only primary sources, WP:NOTCHANGELOG, see talk page for existing discussion. Gracen (they/them) 21:06, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Computing, and Software. Gracen (they/them) 21:06, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
• Merge with Ruby (programming language): There's practically no independent coverage about Ruby's early history. There is some reliable 3rd-party coverage in the form of announcements for new releases, mostly on the newer end: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. This is not quite enough to overcome the WP:NOTCHANGELOG concern, especially since the coverage in RS is nowhere near comprehensive, unless someone can find more coverage in RS. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 23:17, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

• Keep -- seems like a step backwards to remove. Too much information to merge in. Caleb Stanford (talk) 00:06, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

• Merge with Ruby (programming language) A lack of RS coverage for most of this article and falls into WP:NOTCHANGELOG

Isoceles-sai (talk) 09:59, 28 March 2025 (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.