User talk:Krexer

Feb-2013: SAS (software)
Hi Krexer. I have a disclosed conflict of interest with SAS (software) in that I frequently consult them on how to participate on Wikipedia on a public relations basis. I was looking at the page and noted your comment on the Criticisms section. I wanted to introduce myself, hope that we might collaborate on the article in the future and offer some general thoughts.


 * It would be an improvement to delete the unsourced Criticism section, which violates WP:Criticism as well with a non-neutral header, but I will say at least some of these are verifiable, even if not currently sourced. What would be even better is a sourced and balanced "Reception" section. At the moment the verdict at SAS is that we are ill-equipped to write this section on account of our COI.


 * A "Competitors" section with a list is almost always link-bait. Like the Criticisms section, I would consider it an improvement to delete the entire section, but even better to replace with a better analysis. There's a good example of this here. Again, I am probably not the best person to do this.


 * I would like to work with SAS to offer a "Version History" and a "Technical Description" section to replace the Description, History and Components sections. In these cases the corresponding experts at SAS are probably the best people to author them. I think the components list violates "not a directory" and the Code Example violates "not a how-to"

Being that you are a subject-matter expert, I would love to work together on improving the article a bit if you're interested.

CorporateM (Talk) 16:49, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hmm... I could be wrong about example code. Seeing that there is a Category:Articles_with_example_code. CorporateM (Talk) 17:02, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Good ideas. Thanks for contacting me.  I was hoping that my suggestion on the SAS Talk page would start a little conversation.  Then if there seemed to be some consensus, I would then delete or modify the Criticism section.  Even though you have a COI, I encourage you to add your ideas to the SAS Talk page.  I think that your input on there would be fine, and I think that is what Talk pages should be for.  Without hearing from other people, I'm reluctant to delete the section.


 * I'll take a look at the example "competition" section that you referred to. Yes, I agree that a thoughtful analysis would be better than a list.  But I think that a list (even with its challenges) is better than just deleting the section.


 * I don't have enough knowledge about SAS version history and technical description, so I don't think I can make serious contributions to those sections.


 * I don't have a lot of time for Wikipedia editing right now. My available time comes in spurts, but I have lots of client projects going now.  So I will have to wait for a gap in client work before I can give wikipedia much editing my time again.Karl (talk) 18:52, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

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