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Fair use rationale for Image:OberonScreen.PNG

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A2 Native Oberon article should be merged here.

The article on Native Oberon should be merged into this one. This article can have a section addressing each implementation environment. Any objections? PeterEasthope (talk) 16:12, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to agree, then I saw the timestamp and saw that you already did it, long ago. As such I am adding this suggestion: perhaps we should merge in the A2 article here as well? Liam Proven (talk) 12:00, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excessive number of citations?

The history shows that at 2018-05-11 user Accoun1 added the "excessive number of citations" template. A click on "Accoun1" in the history page gets a reply that there is no such user. Accoun1 is a robot? According to my recollection, there was a complaint some years back of inadequate citing of impartial sources. Now too many citations? I'm not convinced. Regards, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 14:08, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I fully agree with Peter Easthope's remark. I remember also that some years ago there were complaints/tags that the article was lacking references, either {{unreferenced}} or {{Primary sources}}. Admitted, in the history section are two places with lots of citations (five citations at "to other hardware" and six citations in a row at "in popular magazines"). At least two of the references at "popular magazines" are referencing german computer magazines and may be omitted (or moved to a German Wikipedia article, but there is currently none about the Oberon OS, only about Oberon the Programming Language). I am in doubt if user Accoun1 is senior enough to add this tag, see his special account info, I am tempted to say that this is a kind of tag bombing. On the other hand I have no idea, how and where to discuss this, maybe an RFC should be added, but I don't know yet how to do a request for comment. I tend to remove the tag. Treutwein (talk) 12:13, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disabling the tag and we'll see what happens. Stay tuned. Regards, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 18:02, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update website link.

Update link to Niklaus Wirth's Operating system. 35.145.148.132 (talk) 01:46, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Links and tone

There are some aspects that I don't think are appropriate on a Wikipedia article. There are many in-body external links and links to sister projects, which I thought are discouraged. § User interface sounds out-of-place for an encyclopedia, in my opinion. Naruyoko (talk) 04:18, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]