Talk:Dired

Improve references
Tedickey 16:13, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * http://www.saildart.org/prog/DOC/html/002962?4293,31330 is undated, no author given. It does mention Stan Kugell.
 * http://www.saildart.org/prog/DOC/html/002482?4330,15360 mentions Stan Kugell, gives a copyright date (but no publication date).

Claims not supported by references
It was quickly incorporated into Emacs, re-implemented in other operating systems, and became the basis for modern windows oriented file directory displays.

This says three things: Tedickey 16:13, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * While there is a sense that Emacs incorporated ideas from dired, none of the references point out what, or when. (Emacs documentation does not mention the dired program).
 * The reference mentioning Stan Kugell does not provide any information that would indicate that it was for a different operating system. The statement uses a plural; only one example is given (and as noted, it is flawed).
 * Separate from the two examples (Emacs and the other program), there are no examples or references given to support the statement that it "became the basis", etc.

confusing external link?
Maybe the first link should rather point to: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html ? That's the more general Dired section in the GNU Emacs Manual, while the other one ist just concerned with the special Dired-X package. Confused me for a second...

Plentyonuttin (talk) 11:26, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

unsourced promotional edits
We've been here before. There are no WP:RS supporting a statement like that. Not even on your resume. TEDickey (talk) 20:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

no Kugell in source
The given source is undated, and does not provide any of the cited metadata (author, publisher, etc). It is (at the moment) only a dump of a help-file, which doesn't provide in itself any useful information for the purpose for which it is used TEDickey (talk) 09:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Reference added for above. Skugell (talk) 13:39, 20 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The reference doesn't tell me anything useful; it at most implies that "SGK" owned a copy of the file, doesn't make any statement about authorship. If you need advice, try reading the guidelines WP:RS is a place to start.  At the moment, you are doing WP:OR and WP:SYNTH, and apparently WP:COI in all of your edits TEDickey (talk) 22:04, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

reference for first?
A primary source cannot be used for promotional statements such as that. TEDickey (talk) 21:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Even worse, the sources given don't actually make a claim that they are the first, second, or otherwise. They're merely some files that happen to be old.  There may well be other, earlier file managers that Dired took inspiration from.  Those citations simply do not address history or development, either way.  If we were comparing those old files with some other old files and saying "See?  These files are oldest", that would at least be original research, but the article doesn't even go that far.  So, I've added citation needed span to highlight "first", and failed verification to make it clear that those citations aren't helpful for the problem.  (I'm leaving the citations as they might reasonably be useful for chasing actual sources for the claims.  But if someone else wants to remove them, I wouldn't object.) — DragonHawk (talk|hist) 15:13, 25 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Agreed - if the statement had been along the lines of "an early", etc., then it would be less noticeable (those "first" statements always need a reliable source other than the developer of course). TEDickey (talk) 19:41, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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