Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CreateWindow

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 18:27, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

CreateWindow and CreateWindowEx[edit]

Wikipedia is not a programming manual. Detailed technical details of the Windows API, such as detailed discussions of individual functions, do not belong, unless what the function does is particularly fascinating. (Drawing a window on the screen is not particularly fascinating nowadays.)

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Concur, Delete. R adiant _* 13:33, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
Move if possible. Isn't there a Wikibook on the Windows API that these could be transferred to (I didn't find one), or should someone start one? (I'm not familiar enough with Wikibooks yet to know I wouldn't be duplicating an existing manual.) --Unfocused 03:27, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, it's called MSDN.com :) Radiant_* 08:28, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
  - MSDN is far too convoluted. Besides, it's not a wiki. We should have somewhere to put this stuff. But we can't have all of the Win32 API functions on the primary Wikipedia - there are hundreds of them. Firebug 19:51, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    - Also, MSDN is non-free. Further, I wouldn't trust Microsoft to ever fully disclose their API in public, so I thought a Wiki would be a pretty appropriate place to find such a reference. --Unfocused 20:07, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      - Okay, sorry, that remark wasn't entirely serious. We could plausibly have a Microsoft wikibook, I just hope their lawyers'd stay away. R adiant _* 07:53, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
        As long as the info wasn't directly copied from MSDN (which I think this may have been) then I don't see what grounds for complaint MS could have. Firebug 14:45, 11 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Wikipedia is not a programming manual, and I suspect that it's a copyvio from MSDN. --Carnildo 20:50, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not a manual.
Delete. Quale 05:48, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Shanes 05:51, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for Copyvio: text is identical to MSDN. (Otherwise I'd say move to Wikibooks.) Krubo 12:57, 2005 May 14 (UTC)

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