Deletion of Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients

Comment: The nomination reason above is not backed up by any of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. The nom makes an argument of |just not notable, which while false, is also one of the many |arguments to avoid.The Wikipedia:Notability|notability ''guideline'' does not limit what can or cannot be included in a particular article. The notability guideline only ''helps'' determine if a ''specific'' subject should have its own standalone article.  states: ''"The notability guidelines determine whether a topic is notable enough to be a '''separate article''' in Wikipedia. They do not give guidance on the '''content''' of articles, except for lists of people. Instead, various :Category:Wikipedia content policy|content policies govern article content, with the amount of coverage given to topics '''within''' articles decided by its appropriate |weight."''Many of the currently Wikipedia:Red link|red link entries in these tables are in fact quite notable; we just don't yet have articles about them. Others will eventually be Wikipedia:Redirect|redirected to a |glossary-type article where we can give some of the smaller but well known topics (which are important to the "IRC community") better coverage.This particular article has lots of references and many editors including myself have been actively expanding it and adding additional references. It uses two citation methods; Wikipedia:Inline citation|inline citations and Wikipedia:Embedded citations|embedded citations. While inline citations are preferred for some things, embedded citations are commonplace in comparison tables and lists and work extremely well for those particular uses.This article is not unique in its layout or structure, see :Category:Software comparisons for an overview of many of these articles on Wikipedia.Put simply, this AfD was a bad faith AfD nomination by
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:JNN||WP:ATA||WP:NCC||WP:WEIGHT||WP:MOSGLOSS)