On 2/15/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
I dont know if there should be one. I cant tell from the stub, thats the problem. The company might be notable (I think that WP:CORP is a bit restrictive, and should be ignored in many cases). But individual software products are often not very notable (if I write the history of software if wont include much about programs that import and export data). But it of course may be very important; just neither of us know.
I've expanded the stub now. I understand that software products are not inherently notable, but let's not confuse some shareware platform game with expensive, highly specialised data loading software used by massive companies to transfer enormous quantities of data each day.
I would rather have a good article about ETL including a list of products (that could be redirects) than a bunch of stubs that may never be filled in.
A good article about ETL would be great, and some basic information on the various products - short articles, or collected together - would be great. I don't know about "never be filled in" - Wikipedia is supposedly timeless. Compared to many of the really trivial subjects covered, it's a bit disappointing that the whole domain of data management, data warehousing, ETL etc is of such low quality.
Maybe time for a bounty...:)
Steve