Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/512-bit Era

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The result of the debate was delete, and redirect to Seventh-generation era. - Mailer Diablo 22:28, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

512-bit Era[edit]

No such era exists and it's ridiculous (laughable is actually a better word) to state it's the "512-bit" era because a system has 512MB of RAM. Anything that isn't incorrect, speculation, POV, etc is already at Seventh-generation era which this appears to be a fork of. K1Bond007 00:38, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

~~Well, I think that this deserves to be an article, but it should be retitled to something more appropriate, since~~ the previous "eras" such as the "16-bit" and "32-bit" eras were so named because the CPUs of the consoles of the era claimed to be as the name suggested, while none of the new consoles claim to have "512-bit processors" and all apparently run on PowerPC CPUs which are definitely not 512-bit. --M412k 01:15, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thats what Seventh-generation era is, which is debatable too as a proper title. Actually the title of the article has gone through major discussions along with other similar articles at the corresponding Wikiproject. Since there is no name for this era (except for perhaps the Microsoft marketing "HD era"), I don't see what a proper title can be at this point -- for sure it shouldn't be "512-bit era" especially with that reasoning. K1Bond007 01:59, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I forgot about the Seventh-generation era. I almost proposed a merge, but the "information" in this article is mostly useless, so delete it. --M412k 02:02, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The Seventh-generation era article already is covering this. Thunderbrand 02:27, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
Delete, agree with you lot. "X-bit era" refers to the word width of the processor, i.e. how many bits it can treat as a single unit at a time. It has nothing to do with memory, and certainly not when confusing bits with megabytes. — JIP | Talk 04:14, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete agree with the nominator's reasons. --Chill Pill Bill 05:06, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Speculative fork of Seventh-generation era. jni 07:27, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Seventh-generation era. Vashti 08:25, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Seventh-generation era. Nestea 11:17, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to Seventh-generation era. Mattl 16:42, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep if there's 128-bit etc, then this should be kept too. Well researched, encyclopaedic article. Internodeuser 19:44, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

While I think that the author's intent was essentially good, as I explained above, the "512-bit" moniker just doesn't make any sense --M412k 02:04, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This era does not exist. Yet. It is scheduled to start in 2038. Tempshill 19:59, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Come back when it actually happens. Linuxbeak | Desk 01:14, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Completely speculative. There's even a section "Most popular games during the era". Tetzcatlipoca 20:16, May 26, 2005 (GMT)
Delete. Just speculation. --SuperDude 23:01, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect. Andre (talk) 21:21, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

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