Nomination of List of undocumented x86 instructions for deletion edit

 
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Fram (talk) 10:16, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of List of discontinued x86 instructions edit

 

The article List of discontinued x86 instructions has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

WP:NOTMANUAL, we are not a collection of code changes

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Deletion discussion about List of discontinued x86 instructions edit

Hello, Punpcklbw, and welcome to Wikipedia. I edit here too, under the username Dr vulpes, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I've started a discussion about whether an article that you created, List of discontinued x86 instructions, should be deleted, as I am not sure that it is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia in its current form. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of discontinued x86 instructions.

You might like to note that such discussions usually run for seven days and are not ballot-polls. And, our guide about effectively contributing to such discussions is worth a read. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

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Dr vulpes (💬📝) 08:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hey @Punpcklbw sorry for not getting to you sooner. I just wanted to let you know that in the AfD for this article the proposal is to move it to Wikibooks as part of a large book on the x86 instruction set. Dr vulpes (💬📝) 02:57, 1 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for your work on documenting the x86(-64) architecture! Hexware (talk) 12:17, 8 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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