Talk:DataStax

Article rewrite due to copyright infringement notice
I have rewritten the article and placed the suggested new edition here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DataStax/Temp. I did not include the text of the article itself. I did include the Infobox, except for a change to the foundation date and the number of employees. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 20:50, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Incidentally WP:COI doesn't apply to me. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 00:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for re-writing the article; I have incorporated this article onto the page DataStax. Please let me know if it now meets the requirements of being a neutral article. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiuser298 (talk • contribs) 08:52, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

GregJackP added WP:COI to this article on December 20 (one month ago). I would like to see his reasoning and his current opinion. I am notifying him on his talk page. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 17:02, 20 January 2013 (UTC)


 * The WP:COI template was added due to the editing of Wikiuser298 posting on this page that he was the copyright holder of material that had been added to the article (see section immediately below and this diff), and leaving an email address from Datastax.com for questions. As either an employee or principle of the company, it is a COI for him to edit the article, which he has done extensively.  Since he is continuing to do so, the tag should remain.  Regards,  GregJackP   Boomer!   17:25, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't see a statement by Wikiuser298 that he/she is an employee or principal, but in any case I could solve that by overwriting all his/her edits with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DataStax/Temp. I wrote that because Drm310 placed a WP:COPYVIO. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_Copyright_Violations_101, one appropriate response to that is: "You can also click on the link for temporary space and rewrite the problematic text. If you do, mention it on the article's talk page." -- which I did. Knowing that the temporary-space article causes no issue with either copyright or conflict of interest, I have only been waiting to see whether Drm310 objects. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 21:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Click on the diff above (or for convenience, here, and it opens up an edit by Wikiuser298 that adds the statement "I'm the copyright holder for this text and I approve its use on WikiPedia. Please contact me at xxxxx@DataStax.com." [name on email redacted] The post was unsigned, but the edit history shows that he made the post.  Having an email address from the company indicates that he either works for the company or is a principle of the company.   GregJackP   Boomer!   22:00, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

I received no reply from Drm310. I edited the substitute page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DataStax/Temp so as to take care of all but one of the tags on the main page, by removing tagged items or adding new citations. I moved the substitute page to the main page, which takes care of WP:COPYVIO because content is no longer from DataStax's site, and takes care of WP:COI because content is no longer due to DataStax's employee. That still leaves a "notability" issue, but now the references include quite a few independent publications: eWeek, TheRegister, Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, NetworkWorld, Reuters, Forbes, and ZDNet. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 23:50, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Correction: not Reuters, but Dr. Dobb's Journal. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 14:47, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Permission Granted by Holder to Allow this Information on WikiPedia
I'm the copyright holder for this text and I approve its use on Wikipedia.
 * That is not sufficient, unfortunately... you need to follow the steps outlined at Donating copyrighted materials. --Drm310 (talk) 17:38, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Minor problems remaining after surviving nomination for deletion
I fixed up enough so that the article's "notability" is acknowledged now. But it was observed that it contains "peacock words",perhaps referring to "fault tolerance" or "scalability". And there's still a WP:SELFPUBLISH tag after the words 'and support for CQL which the company claims is "close to a subset" of the widely-used SQL language.[1]' I couldn't think of appropriate solutions. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 02:29, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Advert tag
User Bryji added an "Advert" tag to this article. I can't believe that an objective observer would disagree that was the right thing to do. But I believe the main problem was due to only one edit. I've erased that edit manually. Hoping that is good enough, I've removed the "Advert" tag. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 23:02, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * It still looks like an advert IMO. Quite a lot actually. It should either be re-written or the "advert"-tag be re-inserted. Pugilist (talk) 14:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

DSE???
What should DSE be?