Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software entropy Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Software_entropy

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 Software rot. Any content worth merging may be pulled from the page history. Beeblebrox ^Beebletalks 22:52, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I WP:BLARd this to software rot about a year ago, but was just reverted. Software entropy (this AFD) seems almost identical to software rot, and software entropy doesn't have much content. Recommend redirecting to software rot. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:30, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing and Software. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:30, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Agree on redirect. I've added a section on software entropy to the software rot article to migrate some of the information as suggested in the revert, but the rest of this article looks to just be OR or less well worded duplicates of information already there. Chaste Krassley (talk) 23:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• !vote My comment was: Concept are close, but content should be properly migrated before deletion. I think link to the Lehman's laws and the "Fixing broken windows" metaphor are also important (in the history). I've added it to the software rot page. Dhmoclex (talk) 13:51, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect: Per nomination. Software rot and software entropy are conceptually the same thing. HyperAccelerated (talk) 05:41, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to software rot. Same thing. XOR'easter (talk) 06:14, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.