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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is a notable subject, having been widely reported, as asserted by the citations. It deals with the issue of Orphaned technology, was reported in MacWorld, the BBC, attracted hundreds of thousands of responses and was the first time a user base had risen up to defend the firing of a development team by a major technology company, Avid Tech. Sibelius won the Queen's Awards for Enterprise, and is the largest music scoring application in the world. The campaign attracted international attention.

Correction: “defend the firing of the development team...” should read “defend the development team fired...” Chrisdevelop (talk) 04:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Numerous improvements have been made to this article in response to the criticism. These are detailed in the discussion under the deletion notice. Chrisdevelop (talk) 07:15, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Save Sibelius article

This is already under discussion at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2017 December 22. There's no need to have this parallel discussion. If you wish to comment on this, please do it at the DRV so everything is in one place. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:29, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Save Sibelius

This page was originally a paragraph in an article being constructed in Sandbox about the activist and musician, Derek Williams. It was migrated in an attempt to reduce the size of the Williams article, despite adding to his notability. However, the article was nominated for speedy deletion on the grounds that it was not a notable campaign. After that, there was one vote to Keep, one to Merge to Sibelius (software) and another to Merge to Sibelius Software, so it’s hard to see this as ‘consensus’. Summary of the 4 votes:

  1. Speedy deletion
  2. Keep
  3. Merge to Sibelius (software)
  4. Merge to Sibelius Software

No option gets more than one vote, however there is consensus not to erase the content. Another option is to reintegrate the content back to the Derek Williams article, and see what fate that suffers. If the entire Williams article is deleted, then mention could still be made of the Save Sibelius campaign under the articles: orphaned technology, abandonware, planned obsolescence, asset stripping Chrisdevelop (talk) 04:46, 22 December 2017 (UTC) Chrisdevelop (talk) 05:11, 22 December 2017 (UTC)


The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Merge to Sibelius Software completed

Chrisdevelop (talk) 04:42, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

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