Talk:Libpng

Code example
So now over 50% of the article consists of a piece of sample Windows code. Issues:


 * 1) It's either original research or unsourced.
 * 2) It doesn't actually describe what it's doing.
 * 3) It's an obvious piece of howto info.

I reckon this should be removed. The rationale given ("with an example the rest doesn't make sense") doesn't hold; there are plenty of articles on software libraries which can hold their own on WP without code examples. Chris Cunningham (talk) 14:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * But how else do you think the article can be expanded? I know the article obviously needs to explain various structures and functions. The code example, I mean this particular one, is not an original research at all because it is very straightforward way of demonstration of various features in the library. I agree the code probably needs some more comments, but I didn't meant it is perfect. Finally, it is not good that the large part of the article is just a program code, but then the right course of action would be expand the article not remove the code, just like in any other articles in wikipedia. -- Taku (talk) 22:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Uses, history, functionality compared to spec. Original research means anything which isbn't directly appropriated from sources. The code doesn't add anything because it's unintelligible to non-programmers and of little value to actual programmers (who are far more likely to read API docs than to study Wikipedia for details on libraries. Chris Cunningham (talk) 00:36, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * API docs? This is libpng we are talking about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.66.25.1 (talk) 01:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge
Two hopeless stubs could be merged into one notable libpng, the libpng License needs no extra page, it can be a footnote on zlib License or a section with an infobox here. I've added on zlib License, so that way to get a wikidata item for libpng License automatically should be blocked soon. –89.15.238.96 (talk) 23:50, 7 October 2017 (UTC)