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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 20:17, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
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An article about "a marketing phrase". Provides nothing in the way of evidence that the phrase has been the subject of significant coverage in WP:RS, and instead provides a potted history of routine rivalry between commercial rivals, during which the phrase seems to have been occasionally used. The article fails to demonstrate that the phrase was in any way of significance, despite the clear attempt to synthesise such significance through cherry-picking sources. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:22, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Business and Computing. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:22, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
- @AndyTheGrump, would you feel the same if the first sentence said "VAX killers were IBM products positioned to compete against DEC's VAX computer systems", rather than "VAX Killer was a marketing phrase"? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:03, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
- No. Firstly because it clearly was a marketing phrase, rather than any sort of product name or type description, and secondly because as the article states, the phrase was used to refer to Data General products, as well as those of IBM. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:26, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and possibly WP:NOTNEO. Where's the beef? Clarityfiend (talk) 10:08, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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