Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebasing
to Relocation (computer science) - I was going to argue to Keep, but realized it would fit quite nicely in the Relocation article that mentions runtime relocation, which is essentially what rebasing is. Both articles are stubs and together they could present a better article on relocating program addresses which is an absolutely necessary concept and facility in modern Computer multitasking|multitasking operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, and mainframe OS. (See also: Loader (computing)|loaders). It's not a definition and it's not a DAB, it's a stub about a very serious, very necessary, and well referenced systems programming concept. And yes, I know what it is. The article has been here since December 2003 and has multiple good references, even if they aren't inline. As to mentions of the term "rebase", please note (walking down the reference list from the article): (1) The Levine book says (pg 218) "Microsoft calls run-time relocation ''rebasing.''" (2) In the Chen reference, the title of the article is "How did Windows 95 rebase DLLs?"  (3) The tile of the Riemersma article is  "Rebasing Win32 DLLs"  (4) The Baker article is about using the REBASE tool from Microsoft.  (5) The Caldato article has a section entitled "Avoid Rebasing". (6) The Biswas article has a section also entitled "Avoid Rebasing".  (7) The Pietrek article has a section entitled "Base Relocations", which is what rebasing is.  (7) The Asche article is entitled "Rebasing Win32 DLLs: The Whole Story". (9) The Thomas & Reddy article has a section entitled "Rebasing and binding in Windows". One could also do a Google search on "location rebasing" and come up with even more references. This article is rather technical and general readers may not get it, but that's a reason to write for the layman as well as the expert in operating systems internals, not to delete. I don't see this as |original research at all, what with all the references. I would undertake to merge right now, but it's not a good idea to merge during an AfD. But I will with consensus
— User:Becksguy, 05:18, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)