[WikiEN-l] CSD A7 and software programs

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

It appears to be more of an article about the demo than the actual
program...

On 1/14/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/14/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > RoboGeo: the sources include two articles that are not written by its
> > creators.
> > One of those is even a book.
>
> Well, the originally CSDed article didn't contain those sources.  The
> current article does.
>
> However, this seems to suggest that any article which doesn't contain
> two sources (or at least claim that two sources exist) is a CSD.  In
> that respect it seems too easy to remove any article (speedily, at
> that) by wikilawyering about lack of sources.
>
> > I don't like how there's little content there
> > and how it has a big "download here" sign, but I'd give it a chance due
> to
> > the fact it has independant sources.
> >
> > The software guidelines probably need to be stricter and more specific
> so
> > for example random flash games without a lot of visitors and/or a
> widespead
> > cult status are excluded.
> >
> They also need to be a lot less strict for software which does
> something useful, in my opinion.  [[RoboGEO]] doesn't seem like it
> would pass [[WP:SOFTWARE]] by any stretch of the imagination (it most
> likely isn't the subject of any published works aside from some
> websites, and it's Windows software so it has no prayer of being
> included in a major operating system distribution).
>
> Of course, maybe there is a consensus that only the most famous
> software programs belong in Wikipedia.  If that's true, then
> WP:SOFTWARE should just be made a policy, as opposed to a proposed
> guideline, and people who wish to write wiki articles about non-famous
> software can move somewhere else.  Incidentally, does anyone know of
> some good wikis that definitely do allow this sort of thing?
>
> Anthony
>
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