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Please read before adding clients

A rigid consensus on inclusion criteria for this list has not been reached, but this is the gist of what has been wrangled so far:

IRC clients added to this list must either have their own article, in which notability is established, or they must be verifiable using independent reliable sources which discuss the client. In addition to an optional primary source (the author), the client must be supported by either two "passable" independent reliable sources which discuss the client in a few paragraphs, or one "excellent" source which discusses it extensively. These inclusion criteria are the result of long, painful discussion; see the Talk archives, above.
Only independent verifiability is required for this list, not general notability(required for article topics).
Some sources have been deemed to be reliable about IRC and clients after extensive discussion; these have been cited in the list.
Examples: these clients each have two "passable" sources: DMDirc and HydraIRC.
Sourcing IRC clients for articles and this list has historically been difficult; for old clients, sources may be out of print and/or only available offline. For new clients, typically nothing is written about them in independent publications. It takes time to find sources, be patient. But please do not add a client to this list without independent reliable sources, because it will be subject to deletion.