Talk:Pattern Languages of Programs: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:43, 7 January 2008

Speedy deletion request

Hi to who put the speed deletion request onto this page. Please give me two days or so to read up on WP criteria of how I have to write it such that it is obvious that these conferences are notable. In the meantime please consider that this is the birthplace or at least midwife of the Design Patterns movement which has had a major impact on the software industry. Dirk Riehle (talk) 19:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Links to write-ups in respected trade press would help.--agr (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Consolidation/Disambiguation Discussion

Pattern Languages of Programming is a page on well, pattern languages, history, Alexander, etc.
Pattern Languages of Programming Conference is a page on what's currently on this page, i.e. it is about the conference
PLoP conference links to Pattern Languages of Programming Conference
PLoP links to PLoP conference
There is no PLOP page, only PLoP
There is no Pattern Languages of Programs page, only PL of Programming

Opinions? Dirk Riehle (talk) 17:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe:

The PLOP page should be merged into the Pattern Languages of Programming page.
Then PLOP should redirect to Pattern Languages of Programming.
The Pattern Languages of Programming page should be renamed to "Pattern Languages of Programs" since that's the actual name of the conference.

-- Bobby Woolf 21:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I checked a couple of examples: IRS redirects to Internal_Revenue_Service, DMV disambiguates to Department_of_Motor_Vehicles (among other things). So it seems clear that PLoP should disambiguate to a page that has the full name.

Next question for me is: Should the redirected-to page be "Pattern_Languages_of_Programming" or should it be "Pattern_Languages_of_Programming_Conference"?

As to PL of Programs vs. PL of Programming. I asked the board and Linda came back with the Hillside trademark PLoP stands for Pattern Languages of Programming. If you look at the Hillside webpage for PLoPs, you'll see both is used. Dirk Riehle (talk) 04:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How long should we leave it like this until a merge? This weekend? Longer? Dirk Riehle (talk) 20:54, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

After reading up on how to merge pages I will go ahead on Monday morning---no need to wait longer given the small number of editors on this and the PLoP page. Dirk Riehle (talk) 21:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]