Article about Ejabberd in English wikipedia under threat
The other day on Habré, passions thundered about the deletion of an article about QutIM on an English-language Wikipedia ( habrahabr.ru/blogs/im/78756 ). Then an article appeared explaining why, from the point of view of the rules, Wikipedia moderators are right ( habrahabr.ru/blogs/wikipedia/78789 ).
However, this is far from the end, as strange things continue to happen. Next up is a jabber open source server written in Erlang. In an article about him more than seventy! references to sources of information. However, the same character (someone Miami33139 claims that the article is about a product that is not worthy of attention).
Ejabbered - Jabber server written in Erlang. They are used by Nokia, LiveJournal, Yandex and Facebook.
Remove it gathered for
Here they write that the English-language Wikipedia produces a global cleaning of all Jabber-oriented content.
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I want to add one more thing. On the English-language Wikipedia page on posting information, Reliable Sources (English) states the following
It is a pity that the moderators consider themselves entitled to ignore the common sense of other Wikipedia participants.
Shl. I don’t give a link to an article about deletion - think well before writing something there –– a lot of correct comments have already been written about why the article should be left. With arrivals and exclamations “Yes, you have become completely foolish there,” we will not achieve anything. I propose to act deliberately. How - as long as I do not know myself, but I think together we will decide.
upd: track13 suggested that at the time of the publication of the article for deletion in it from the sources there were only links to the project developers themselves.
However, this is far from the end, as strange things continue to happen. Next up is a jabber open source server written in Erlang. In an article about him more than seventy! references to sources of information. However, the same character (someone Miami33139 claims that the article is about a product that is not worthy of attention).
Ejabbered - Jabber server written in Erlang. They are used by Nokia, LiveJournal, Yandex and Facebook.
Remove it gathered for
- insignificance
This is a minor product. The provided links contain only information from the official site, about its new versions. Miami33139
- too narrow specialization
All the chances of not being professionally engaged in these things will not even know what it is.
- unverifiable
blogs, facebook pages, blogs are not what we meant, demanding the provision of reliable sources from independent individuals
Here they write that the English-language Wikipedia produces a global cleaning of all Jabber-oriented content.
Pages about some XMPP programs have already been deleted (Coccinella (he did not know about QutIM)) and it looks like the rest will be deleted in the near future (Exodus, Gajim, ejabberd)
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I want to add one more thing. On the English-language Wikipedia page on posting information, Reliable Sources (English) states the following
This document is a common standard that all editors should follow, but it’s best to use common sense.
It is a pity that the moderators consider themselves entitled to ignore the common sense of other Wikipedia participants.
Shl. I don’t give a link to an article about deletion - think well before writing something there –– a lot of correct comments have already been written about why the article should be left. With arrivals and exclamations “Yes, you have become completely foolish there,” we will not achieve anything. I propose to act deliberately. How - as long as I do not know myself, but I think together we will decide.
upd: track13 suggested that at the time of the publication of the article for deletion in it from the sources there were only links to the project developers themselves.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/79019/
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