User talk:Rdbuckley

What page?
What page are you referring to? -- light darkness (talk) 00:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC) QA·C QA·C++ QA·J  plus the redirects got hosed too.

Those are simple explanations linked from the static analysis section.

Hope this helps!

I read this to make sure that the content was appropriate (since it does deal with a "commercial product" since that's the group heading in the static analysis section:

Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group, service, or person and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company, product, group, service, or person as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion; an article that is blatant advertising should have inappropriate content as well. If a page has previously gone through a deletion process and was not deleted, it should not be speedily deleted under this criterion.

Removal of QA·C
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a product catalogue or an advertising service. Software in particular has notability criteria, please see WP:SOFTWARE. There are indeed other articles that fail notability criteria, hopefully those get sorted out in time; this, however, is not a reason to add more non-notable products. Thanks! Weregerbil 13:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * This discussion is now in quite a few places; if there are no objections, I suggest we continue it in Talk:QA·C only so as to save everyone's time. Weregerbil

QA·C Discussion
Weregerbil, thanks for the reply. I agree that it makes sense to keep the discusssion here.

I looked at the link to the criteria and this immediately jumped out at me:

... the following criteria can be used to estimate if the software is notable:

The software is among the core products of a notable software developer or vendor.

Programming Research was established in 1986 and is certainly a "notable" vendor in the static analysis space. And, QA·C is a core product.

Do we have to go further?

Rdbuckley 13:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Second Wind (company)
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Copyright problem follow-up: Second Wind (company)
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Stefan2 (talk) 17:23, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of WindSim


The article WindSim has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails WP: N. I found some brief descriptions in a book, but I don't think they're enough to make an article out of."

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