English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Articles for deletion/Network status gathering system

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 22:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Network status gathering system

Non- notable dicdef. The only source listed is this one, which mentions NSGS but does little to clarify what it is: [1]

At least I could find the following dicdef here: [2] "The Network Status Gathering System (NSGS) is the component that queries the network to determine its status. Among the information returned by the NSGS there is a “loss of signal” alarm that indicates that the queried device did not answer a ping (ICMP echo requests) and the latency of the ping when it succeeds. The NSGS can also query SNMP objects." No other sources for this term show up on google other than Wikipedia and mirror sites. Essentially, an NSGS is a "status checker" for a network, and it does not seem to refer to any specifically coded "status checker," but rather seems to be used as a generic term any time a network engineer has put his or her own "status checker" in place. It appears that this subject has not received notable coverage as a topic, and there would never be anything more than a dicdef. Wikipedia is not a dictionary and not a technical manual. OfficeGirl 23:00, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete They're not even definitions, rather just the labels those students have invented for bits of the systems they've designed for a paper. Presumably someone's read it and mistaken it for a widely-used term, but it's just a collection of meaningful words turned into an acronym to save typing. Had they been native English speakers (one paper from Brazil, the other China), they would have called it the less clumsy "network status monitoring system", which throws up tons of hits and just means what you'd expect rather than being a technical term with special meaning. Thomjakobsen 03:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Delete. Not notable. I agree that it looks like somebody made it up. There is nothing to differentiate it from an SNMP server. If it needs to be on Wikipedia at all it should be in that article, and I don't think it should be on Wikipedia at all. Isaac Pankonin 11:14, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 15:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Delete. Does not demonstrate it's notability. • Lawrence Cohen 16:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.