Talk:WordPerfect/Archives/2016

Merging WordPerfect Office to WordPerfect

Being from Ottawa, i want to be proud of Corel and their WordPerfect Office suite. Unfortunately, their glory days are far behind them. Ottawa's school boards (such as CÉCCE) and the Ottawa Public Library proudly provided Corel's office suite in the past years. Nowadays, however, the suite is gone and the teachers demand Microsoft Word.

This is just a small snapshot. The point is, if the suite can't even be embraced in its own city, how can it be notable anywhere else? It's not. The WordPerfect Office article merely reads like a sales brochure, listing the software bundled with each version of the office suite. It doesn't summarize its components (WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Corel Presentations and more), nor does it go over the pros and cons of them or the suite. It doesn't talk about real world deployment or market share of the suite. It doesn't even elaborate on Corel Office for Java. The article doesn't have a purpose that fits the goal of Wikipedia.

In short, i believe the WordPerfect Office article should be merged to the WordPerfect page. --True Tech Talk Time (talk) 14:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

I think I do not agree with this merge. Having the office suite article as part of the word processor article is a little confusing. Also that WP Office has a very small marketshare does not mean historical information about the suite has no place on Wikipedia; after all, we have also articles on defunct programs like WordStar.

Before you started working on Corel WordPerfect Office (now a redirect), it was not a real article indeed, but the last version before the merge could stand on its own, in my opinion. Bever (talk) 19:09, 7 December 2016 (UTC)