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Fails WP:NSOFT Clenpr (talk) 16:48, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of BASIC dialects. ApexParagon (talk) 16:54, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you provide at least a valid reference so we can keep it in the referenced page? Clenpr (talk) 06:43, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 17:22, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 00:58, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect There does not appear to be much in the way of in-depth coverage. Interesting use of basic for Casio PDAs, but it's a very niche group of hobbyists. Most information is primary or Casio PDA forums. The ancient website for the software is here for citing in redirect:[1]. Redirecting to casio PDA page is also a possibility.

Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 02:52, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you provide at least a valid reference so we can keep it in the referenced page? Clenpr (talk) 09:49, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Clenpr: An Internet Archive search yield more than a dozen mentions in computer magazines. Many of those should be good for a post-redirect mention. BD2412 T 16:18, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Of these, I suppose I would go with: Paul Ward, "Rebuttal #1 to Why the "CoCo 4" Will Fail", The OSK'er, Issue 5 (1991), p. 11.

You can't set up a multiuser system on a PC without spending about $2000 far a product that hacks up the operating system and brings out several serial ports. What about a compiled BASIC and an assembler? Print spooling software? That will coat extra on a PC (although OWBasic does come with PCs).

BD2412 T 16:34, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GWBasic (note G not O) came as a standard item with IBM-compatible PCs for a long time. Are we 100% sure this quote isn't a mistype? Elemimele (talk) 11:31, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Elemimele: We can't be 100% sure any quote on anything isn't a mistype, but "G" and "O" are not next to each other on the keyboard. BD2412 T 16:18, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 05:47, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Pocket Viewer, as Anonrfjwhuikdzz suggests - that article already has a brief description of OWBasic. I can't find any reliable, independent references that would support a separate article; the few hits are all OCR errors for GWBASIC, and/or predate the Pocket Viewer series (1999). Adam Sampson (talk) 13:37, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Could you provide at least a valid reference so we can keep it in the referenced page? Otherwise it would be inconsistent to have a redirect to page where there is no mention of it Clenpr (talk) 13:49, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of BASIC dialects#OWBasic. I added an entry there. It does not meet the notability criteria for a standalone article, but there's way enough primary sources to prove this does exist and has been discussed in the niche of Pocket viewer users. BD2412: Note that a lot of apparent historical mentions are actually GWBasic but with OCR errors. I have not checked them all though. --MarioGom (talk) 12:26, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please, provide an independent published source. See WP:RS Clenpr (talk) 18:46, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]