User talk:Animamia
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The template may have similarities, but the two articles are fundamentally different in content and style, IMO. Basically, the WMP article reads as an objective comment on the market space and comparative features of the product, whereas the MM article is an advert with an exhaustive list of all features and not much else. HAve a look at WP:SOFTWARE and WP:SPAM to get an idea for what qualities an article must have to meet wikipedia entry criteria.
Thank you for asking for my opinion. I feel that the MM article as it stands should be deleted; as a courtesy, I'll wait 48 or more hours before nominating.
If you want to have it kept, one suggestion for an article that would probably not cause any issues would be to keep the 'introduction' text but remove the header, completely remove the 'MM Gold 3.0' section, completly remove or radically NPOV the 'version history' - perhaps keep just the first sentence, if you feel it really is important in an encyclopedia (not an advertising brochure) and keep only the first link.
I suggest that if you're serious about keeping the software article in Wikipedia, you make these changes before another editor nominates it for deletion.
Regards, Colonel Tom 09:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
