Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Image conversion
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[edit] Image conversion
This was PRODded as a "non-notable phenomenon", but since image conversion happens all the time, I'm not so sure. Consider this a "25% delete, 75% merge to some topic somewhere" !vote. I'm a little bit confused - would this topic be too self-explanatory to be needed at all? And if not so, is it merge-worthy to some more informative article, or should it stay until we have something substantial on document conversion in general, or what? I'm sorry I can't make a too coherent argument for or against... and moreso, I'm even more confused because I myself instructed the article creator to work on "general" topics before tackling ReaSoft Image Converter, so I may have dug this hole myself and I don't know, in my current mental state, how to handle this. So I honestly think something should be done, but I'd definitely want to hear what the community has to say. wwwwolf (barks/growls) 13:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Comment As is, it's verging on WP:NOT#MANUAL. We don't do how-tos, per se, here. On the other hand a general discussion of this topic could cover several aspects such as histograms and lossless vs. lossy formats. Some of that is probably in other articles, though, so I'm not sure what the holes are here. --Dhartung | Talk 13:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Keep, at least provisionally, and move to something like image conversion software, because it seems to be exclusively concerned with electronically stored images. My unscientific impression is that this sort of software is encountered fairly frequently. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:06, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Delete, it's a howto as it stands. WillOakland (talk) 21:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
- Keep. Right now it's a howto, but I think it could be rewritten as an encyclopedic article with the same title. Jkasd 05:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
