Talk:Timeline of digital preservation

Serious problems with this article
This article is so flawed I'm not sure it's salvageable. Fundamentally, we have a mishmash of cherry picked events that constitutes WP:SYNTH/WP:OR. Secondarily, the sourcing is less than ideal -- for instance, a tumblr blog (ref 1), a patent (6), corporate blogs (52) founder interviews (31) and corporate first-person reminiscences (26), a wiki (75, 76), and other things that reflect methods that either were hurried, uninformed, or otherwise at odds with good article construction. SEO questions have also arisen at WP:COIN which are substantiated by source 70 from 4 February 2015, self-described as "a professional review site that receives compensation from the companies whose products we review". - Bri.public (talk) 19:44, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

I have just found this page today. I echo most of the concerns of the user above. In good faith, however, can the article be rescued at all? Is there a process for agreeing a timeline that is helpful? Or is it simply always going to be subjective? Also, as a practitioner in the field, I agree the events are somewhat "cherry-picked". More critically, events such as URL shortening are plain and simply wrong here - a URL shortener for example is damaging to the record of the web, obfuscating links, and with the ability to disappear over time. It would be more appropriate in a timeline of events with a negative impact on digital preservation. More than happy to help folk work on a revision of this piece, otherwise, I imagine this page should be proposed for deletion. The fact the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation article itself doesn't link here seems somewhat symbolic. What do people think? Beet keeper (talk) 19:27, 11 January 2022 (UTC)