User talk:Reddishmariposa
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Linking to YouTube Documentary[edit]
Please avoid adding paragraphs seemingly promoting a YouTube documentary on articles. While the documentary might be related to the topic, we do not generally link to said documentaries in the body of the article. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 18:50, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
- External links to important material are allowed by WP:ELNO. The link is not to a documentary. It is also not a promotion. It is a scientific presentation of CDN milestones and evolution. It is similar to linking scientific papers as references. Please look at "What can be linked". Sites with neutral and accurate sources can be linked if it aids an encyclopedic understanding of the subject. There is no other source for the full 25-year history of CDNs and the Edge from a scientific source. So please watch the video first. Also note the source which is a neutral scientific organization. https://networkingchannel.eu/. I request that you take these into consideration and revert your edit. Reddishmariposa (talk) 23:57, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
- Note that it isn't a reference- it's a full on paragraph. You are free to add it as a citation or a reference, but not as an entire paragraph in the leads and bodies of articles. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 10:33, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Upon further inspection, the video in question barely qualifies as a documentary and appears to actually be a talk, which makes it even less suitable for inclusion in those articles. Please stop attempting to include links to it, as it is clearly not notable and not worthy of inclusion. Thank you. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 10:44, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments. Could you please explain what you mean by documentary versus talk? In the scientific community, relevant developments are conveyed both in written form as papers and as talks. This presentation is a survey of the edge, CDNs, and edge computing over the 25-year period, a history that is also intertwined with the history of Akamai. In that sense it is similar to a documentary as it surveys developments over a period. But I am still not sure of the relevance of a documentary versus a talk to this debate.Also, it is clearly notable as it is an invited lecture to mark the 25th anniversary of the genesis of the edge, CDNs, and Akamai. It is also presented in a forum that is popular with researchers in the area and is the second most watched presentation there. Further, it is a history that has not been told before to my knowledge (I am a CS researcher myself and I would know). So, it is certainly noteworthy. I think including it will significantly increase their utility and quality of the three wikipedia pages that I included this presentation. Could it be a shorter sentence with this link as reference at the end of it? How else would one do it? Thanks. Reddishmariposa (talk) 02:15, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Upon further inspection, the video in question barely qualifies as a documentary and appears to actually be a talk, which makes it even less suitable for inclusion in those articles. Please stop attempting to include links to it, as it is clearly not notable and not worthy of inclusion. Thank you. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 10:44, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Note that it isn't a reference- it's a full on paragraph. You are free to add it as a citation or a reference, but not as an entire paragraph in the leads and bodies of articles. Padgriffin Griffin's Nest 10:33, 9 May 2023 (UTC)