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Choosing a feature set in software comparison articles

Comparison of BitTorrent clients (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
There's an edit warring in the referenced article about whether to include a certain feature into the comparison. I advised them to seek consensus but am unsure of how to seek it in this case. The feature is of course covered in RS'es. And there doesn't appear to be any policies, guidelines or even prior discussions on how to decide whether a feature is "notable" to be comparing on. — Vano 22:17, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Embedded computer emulators

Moved from Talk:ARM architecture § Embedded computer emulators

Can an article called Embedded computer emulators be made ? It should include:

Palm OS emulator
Aemulor
Elbrus Technologies x86 emulator (emulator for running x86 programs on ARM)
...

80.200.238.94 (talk) 10:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that Embedded computer emulators (or even embedded computer emulator, per WP:SINGULAR) would be the best title to include such subjects. Would the two other products listed meet the general notability guideline? -- Trevj (talk) 11:47, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

it depends on how far you take the article content, if just covering the above it probably just meet notability guidelines but if you extend it to include other emulators it would pass notability but it best to decided what emulators would be included before creating the article, to be hones ti say this might suit better under virtualization, in essence that is what emulators are virtualization of a specif system but doing it within itself rather than in virtual machineAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 12:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How about starting by improving Emulator and then split it off to a new article if it becomes necessary? -—Kvng 16:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed revision: Continuous Controls Monitoring

In support of the Wikipedia Improvement by Supported Expert Revision Project - NJIT Workgroup on Information Literacy and Learning (WILL), I am proposing a revision to a stub article on Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) in which the current definition needs improvement beyond its rudimentary information, supported by reliable sources.

Target Article: (2012, November 21). In Wikipedia. Retrieved November 21, 2012 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_controls_monitoring

Current Definition: “Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) is the techniques involved in continuously monitoring and auditing an IT system. Typically CCM solutions will be applied to Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as SAP."

I am proposing a significant re-write by eliminating the use of same word references, expanding upon the lack of explanation of what controls and continuous terms are, and referencing industry expert published content.

In developing my definition, I plan on referring to industry expert reference literature such as:

1. ISACA (2010, October 1). Monitoring Internal Control Systems and IT. Rolling Meadows, IL. ISACA.

2. Senft, Sandra. Gallegos, Frederick. Davis, Aleksandra. (2013, July 18). Information Technology Control and Audit. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press

A proper definition should highlight the importance for organizations to operate and monitor IT system controls, helping readers by improving their understanding of the topic, and potentially give them a good starting point when researching ways to improve their organization's IT governance.

Christian-NJITWILL (talk) 02:10, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is not necessary to ask permission to edit - see WP:BOLD. Your contribution was definitely an improvement. Thanks. I have made some further minor improvements. -—Kvng 16:09, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

XML lists

The title of the page List of XML schemas is wrong. It's the same thing as List of XML markup languages, only grouped by purpose. Also, the title "List of XML markup languages" is iffy because it can be read as "list of extensible markup language markup languages" which makes little sense. A better title would be e.g. "List of XML-based markup languages", possibly omitting the word markup. I don't have the time to work on these right now (if ever), so feel free to be BOLD should you be inclined so. Wipe (talk) 02:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There are two other Editors who agree with you. I have put up merge banners. -—Kvng 21:06, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FreeDOS 32

FreeDOS 32 is up for deleting. Is this notable enough to write a stub for? -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 20:51, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not but it doesn't deserve to be deleted either. -—Kvng 21:09, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Internet Top Level Country Domains

There is an ongoing debate on the Northern Ireland Talk Page about what Top Level country domains should be listed. At present the infobox lists .uk, .ie and .eu, but this is disputed. The infobox also has a note saying ".uk is assigned to the United Kingdom of which Northern Ireland is a part, .ie is assigned to Ireland of which Northern Ireland is a part, and .eu is assigned to the European Union of which Northern Ireland is a part. ISO 3166-1 is GB, but .gb is unused"

I would like to ask if anyone has any knowledge of matters relating to Internet top level country domains and if they could please add their insights to the ongoing discussion. Myself and a few others believe it is inappropriate to claim that .ie is Northern Irelands internet domain, because .ie was assigned to a different country (the Republic of Ireland), whilst others say it was assigned to the whole island and point to the fact that the organisation that runs the domain, does welcome people from Northern Ireland to purchase domains too.

Any additional input on the talk page is most welcome. Thank you BritishWatcher (talk) 11:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

SEO Ireland: Domain names and Northern Ireland - both .uk, .ni, .ie and .eu are used, .uk being the official one (i.e. used by governmental institutions). So they all should be included. — Vano 10:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Eighth Generation Consoles

I'm looking for additional outside opinions into the inclusion or exclusion of Video Game Consoles into the 8th Generation article. I have started a new section here and am requesting outside comment. Talk:History_of_video_game_consoles_(eighth_generation)#.22We_need_hardware_comparisons.22. Thank you. -Kai445 (talk) 07:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Commons ENIAC images

Happy New Year, all! I've just created a batch request for a few hi-res US Army images relating to ENIAC. It may come to nothing because there are so few, but I thought those here might have some useful comments to make over at Commons. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 12:09, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Say... is there a Commons:Commons:WikiProject Computing (obviously, if there is, it isn't at that name) ? -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 06:04, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Sinclair

I have started a proposal to group together related articles about the works of Sir Clive Sinclair. Please take a look at the proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Sinclair and see if you support it. --Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 11:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

HDMI Connection

My question is: I connected the HDMI to TV and to computer about a week ago and was able to see computer screen on TV screen, also to connect to Internet and watch Netflix. Since about 2 to 3 days ago it is not connecting...Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.55.235.99 (talk) 15:50, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page is for discussing the project that helps improve computing articles on Wikipedia. You probably won't find anyone on Wikipedia who can answer your question. Find a knowledgeable friend or a local dealer. --Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:04, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Next Unit of Computing

Hello. I created the article "Next Unit of Computing". Please expand the article as appropriate. Thank you. Axl ¤ [Talk] 10:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"T-carrier"

FYI, a reorangization of the data communications articles is being discussed at Talk:T-carrier (and User talk:TCBallister/User talk:John F. Lewis) you may be interested in participating -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 02:37, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"DNA computing (2013)"

FYI, there's a note at WT:MED about the title for DNA computing (2013) -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 09:37, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/to do

This doesn't exist. Background: I was looking to enhance and include Wikipedia:WikiProject RISC OS/to do (thanks, Mabdul) within {{WikiProject Computing}}, but thought Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/to do would be the logical place to start before moving onto the task force.

Is a project-wide to do list perhaps located elsewhere?
(All I found was Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Archive 2#To-Do)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force/to do is present, although apparently not included within {{WikiProject Computing}} - could it be used for tagged task force articles?
{{WikiProject Companies}} seems to work well (although no task forces are included)
Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/todolist seems to contain the appropriate information
If/when the main project to do list is included, can we also include task force lists such as Wikipedia:WikiProject RISC OS/to do and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force/to do?
(The latter is noted as a talk page and should maybe be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Computer networking task force/to do.)

-- Trevj (talk) 11:13, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Advertising check

Someone put a {{Advert}} tag on Cray XK7, an article I wrote. I won't remove it since I was the one who created the article, could someone please take a look and provide a second opinion or suggestions of what sounds like advertising? Thanks, James086^Talk 16:32, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't exactly look like an advert to me! Removed. -- Trevj (talk) 18:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I don't think that reads like an ad, though the person who put that notice there probably balked at all the "This company has this configuration" sections. To my eye, the article is awfully technical and your average reader would have a hard time understanding it. But I don't think it looks like an ad. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:01, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks guys, I'll try to make it a little less technical. Much appreciated. James086^Talk 07:21, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]