Talk:SftpDrive

Please stop removing competitors without discussion
Every time someone links to anything mentioning competing products, someone else removes the link. Please provide your justification. Personally, I don't think this article should exist at all, so unless you want it to show up in the delete queue, play nice. 216.138.203.252 19:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I have been advised that the links which are being removed without consultation are appropriate for this page. Please do not remove them a third time w/out providing a justification.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests/Archive_7#SftpDrive  Somegeek 19:03, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The person who provided that response on the Editor Assistance page is wrong in their assessment. There's two important considerations here.  One -- for lists of software, we create list articles.  The encyclopedia is much better served by having a complete list of SFTP clients gathered in one place, instead of having partial lists in many articles.  It's important to think about these sorts of things from a position of global applicability.  You don't see us linking to Mac OS X from any Microsoft Windows or Linux articles, do you?  Why would we limit such a a list to those three major operating systems?  Is that fair?  Is that a neutral presentation?  What about FreeBSD or AmigaOS or GNU Hurd or any of dozens of other lesser-known operating system articles we have on Wikipedia?  It is both easier and more fair to provide a single wikilink to a list article.  Alternatively, a template can be created that has all the relevant pieces of software gathered together and presented at the bottom of every article.  Template:FreeCollabManageSoftware is a good example of this.


 * Two -- note that WP:SEEALSO suggests that a "good practice is to treat subjects in a "See also" section as topics that could be worked into the article". Nobody's ever going to integrate articles on similar competing products into eachother... it'd create a nightmare for maintainability, and would make for very poor and potentially POV-laden prose.


 * I'm going to remove the list of competing software products. If you're insistent on seeing lists of Sftp clients, please do so using one or both of the two commonly-used methods on computing articles: create a list article or template. Thanks.  -/- Warren 20:24, 26 October 2007 (UTC)