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Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I tagged the article with a Primary Sources cleanup template because most of the references appear to be to Arca Noae's website. --William Graham ^talk 19:22, 19 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The entire article looks like an 1990s software advertisement written by the company themselves. WP:Spam for SEO.

I suggest shortening the article to a simple encyclopedia entry:

ArcaOS is a proprietary operating system based on OS/2, developed and marketed by Arca Noae, LLC under license from IBM. ^[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-44754-84 (talk) 02:57, 16 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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↑ https://www.howtogeek.com/19-years-after-ibm-windows-killer-died-getting-another-update-as-arcaos/

Cleanup following August 2026 deletion and restoration

Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article was speedy-deleted under WP:G11 on 16 August and restored by the deleting administrator on 24 August (deletion review). As promised there, I have now made a cleanup pass (diff) to address the promotional concerns:

Removed material that read as promotional or forward-looking: a sentence comparing NetDrive license tiers (cited to the vendor's shop page), the list of features "proposed" for future 5.1.x releases, several "planned for future releases" clauses, and promotional pricing details.
Condensed the hardware-requirements table and the installation section, which were sourced entirely to the vendor's wiki, into brief prose (WP:NOTMANUAL).
Condensed the lead's technical description, which carried five citations for uncontroversial claims (WP:OVERCITE).
Fixed three citation errors (wrong reference on the 5.1.2 table row, a title typo and wrong date on the 5.1.0 reference, and two swapped reference titles in the Filesystems section).

Net effect: about fourteen citations to arcanoae.com and YouTube removed, no independent sources lost. The {{refimprove-spam}} and {{Primary sources}} tags are still in place — I've left them for others to assess rather than removing them myself, since I was the DRV nominator. Remaining vendor citations are mostly bare release-date announcements in the release history table; I'd welcome other eyes on whether the tags are still warranted, and I'm happy to keep working on replacing primary sources with independent coverage. Vt320 (talk) 17:12, 28 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

[1] ttps://www.howtogeek.com/19-years-after-ibm-windows-killer-died-getting-another-update-as-arcaos/

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