Talk:computer system
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I think this is as straightforward as it can possibly get. -- Liliana • 19:26, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
- Sae1962 has a 'wonderful' habit of adding straightforward terms with definitions too badly worded or too technical for me to understand. At what point do we just delete these on sight for "no usable content given". I'm an educated native speaker, and for the most part I have no clue what he's on about. I would happily delete this right now for not being written in comprehensible English. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:02, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
- Delete --WikiTiki89 20:10, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
- At some point I'm just going to add "Sae1962" to MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown. -- Liliana • 20:13, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
- Good idea. Delete SemperBlotto (talk) 07:46, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
- I don't see any harm in keeping this. Anyway, there are many systems on a computer, so even distilled to the technical senses it could be unclear. DAVilla 03:22, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
- Can't all systems on a computer be called computer systems? If not, why not. My view, come up with some supporting evidence, or delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
- You want me to find evidence that computer system doesn't mean what you say it does!? DAVilla 11:01, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- It is reasonable that some burden of proof be on someone who says that something is a free combination, though there could be a very large set of meanings indeed. Three counter-examples (of different senses) should be sufficient for a prima facie case. Then advocates of including the term could try to come up with definitions that included each of the counterexamples, with suitable attestation. This process could continue until possible definitions, contributors or attestations are exhausted. DCDuring TALK 12:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Can't all systems on a computer be called computer systems? If not, why not. My view, come up with some supporting evidence, or delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
- Keep. If "computer system" refers in one of its senses to a single computer with installed software and peripherals, I find this non-trivial enough to warrant an entry. This sense is found in the current definition in Wiktionary and e.g. at http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/computer_system.html. For lemmings, see “computer system”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Kept for lack of consensus to delete. bd2412 T 16:47, 3 September 2013 (UTC)