Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zebibyte

Zebibyte and Yobibyte was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete.

According to what I hear at Wikipedia, IEC has officially coined kibibyte through exbibyte, but not zebibyte or yobibyte. Any significance of these 2 articles?? 66.245.22.210 16:53, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete both - dicdefs, and also delete if they are not official terms - Tεx τ urε 17:20, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Weak vote to delete. If they are not the official terms, then they should go. If they ever get certified, they can be recreated. -- DropDeadGorgias (talk) 17:33, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
~~Delete.~~ Redirect to Binary prefix where they are mentioned and properly identified as speculative. Sans such a qualification, these articles are misinformation, because the terms have not been endorsed by any standards organization, are not in any dictionary, and are not in significant use (because as of 2004 they are too big for there to be any actual need for them). This is very similar to the issue with Nonabyte and Doggabyte which were deleted per VfD some time ago. Nerd oneupmanship. If these are not deleted, I shall contribute my own fine articles on "bajillion skillion gazillion antidisestablishmentillion," and "mobidikkabyte" (=the binary equivalent of one melvillion bytes) [[User:Dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 20:24, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Zetta- and yotta- are SI prefixes [1]. Some prefixes have modified forms for naming powers of 2 [2]. Zetta- and yotta- don't appear to have official binary forms but it's easy enough to see that zebi- and yobi- would be those forms if they did, and every now and then somebody makes that obvious extrapolation, e.g. [3]. Zebibyte and yobibyte should state explicitly that they're unofficial terms. I'd do that but I'm feeling lazy at the moment. Wile E. Heresiarch 15:06, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hmph. Such extrapolations can surely be made, but they're not encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. I feel very confident that Kerry will take Massachusetts in the 2004 U. S. Presidential election, but that does not mean that I should write an encyclopedia article that states this as fact. Wikipedia is accumulating enough of this sort of garbage to be of at least mild concern. [[User:Dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 16:18, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC) P. S. Too many nerds have obviously gotten too many pats on the back for being able guess "what comes next" in a sequence...

Modify and keep as outlined by Wile. - UtherSRG 15:44, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Modify and keep. Spiff 17:12, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, I've done a modify since if the articles are going to be, ugh, kept I want them to be accurate. With regard to Wile E. Heresiarch's citation [4] I do not see "zebibyte", "zebi-", "yobibyte", or "yobi-." I indeed see the abbreviations ZiB and YiB, and the (puzzling) explanation that "`Zi'[sic] is a GNU extension to IEC 60027-2." Presumably that's a typo for ZiB. Ditto for YiB. If accurately described and cited, I wouldn't object to this factoid being added to the article, since IMHO the FSF does count as some kind of authority—perhaps as an external link identified as "Use of abbreviations ZiB and YiB in GNU software." [[User:Dpbsmith|dpbsmith (talk)]] 17:32, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Delete. Redirect these to Binary prefix for now. If and when they become standard, they can have their own articles. -- WOT 18:21, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Checking google, most uses seem to either be wikipedia or reference wikipedia as the source of this info. The words just aren't useful.
Delete speculation. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:19, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Newbiebyte. But you can't fool Mr. Metric. Patent nonsense. Denni ☯ 01:41, 2004 Aug 7 (UTC)

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