Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flippy disk

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 redirect to Floppy disk variants. (non-admin closure) Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 00:04, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I merged most of the article's body into Floppy disk variants. I also userfied the article and its talk page. ❤ Yutsi ^Talk/ Contributions ( 偉特 ) 17:37, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect - there's no need to delete this article title, it can be turned into a redirect to Floppy disk variants. That way if anyone searches for this common term, they'll be directed to the right place. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:57, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - contents of this article have been copied into both Floppy disk variants and User:Yutsi/Flippy disk, therefore Flippy disk cannot be deleted as long as these other articles exist. My understanding of userfication is that means the entire page history was moved, not copied, to user space. I found a source to indicate that Information Terminals Corporation first introduced the term flippy disk and I believe it was a registered trademark of that firm. It's been on the back-burner of my to-do list to update this article with that information, sorry I have been slow to get around to it. I would argue that if this article is merged, then either History of the floppy disk or Double-sided disk may be better places to merge it. Single-sided 5.25-in. diskettes predated double-sided, and I believe that ITC may have introduced their "flippy" brand of single-sided disks before double-sided were introduced. Later, the term became generic for home-brew modified disks as well. Wbm1058 (talk) 02:42, 6 October 2012 (UTC) updated Wbm1058 (talk) 03:10, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Yutsi's copying of other's work[1] caused attribute problems. However, the copied material is unsources, so it can be deleted to solve the attribute problem. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:21, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:47, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• 'Redirect' Wbm's argument is an argument for keeping the redirect, not for keeping the article. DGG ( talk ) 03:02, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete - The topic is old and obsolete by DVD and other widely covered technology, but I'm not sure whether there is source coverage. It makes sense to be able to flip a disk to get more data storage space. I do remember cutting notches in floppy disks to get more memory out of the disk, but not then calling it a flippy. Still, it's possible that the topic meets WP:GNG. I found one reference, and added that information to DVD#History: "In one example of a significant compromise, proposal SD 9, where both layers of the dual-layered disc would be read from the same side, was adopted over proposal SD 10, which would have created a "flippy" disc that users "would have to remove, turn over, and reinsert to read the other side."^[1]