User talk:Simonhartleyusa

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On your edits to List of custom Android distributions
I just wanted to let you know that I've reverted your addition of AltOS to the table. I hope you've read the (!) comment before the table-- because anyone can create a custom Android distribution by downloading the source code, you'll need media coverage before we can reasonably agree it can go on the list (per WP:Notability).Also, although I don't know if this applies to you, you need to declare your conflict of interest on your main user page if you're writing on behalf of an organization (See WP:COI). ⸺RandomStaplers (talk) 18:46, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for FYI. I understand from looking at what is already unquestioned and on list that quite a number of initiatives are R&D science projects with a single or small number of collaborators.

I should have used a more visible reference like the one regarding the $1.4 million funding from US Air Force for the altOS distribution. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/air-force-research-laboratory-selected-cis-mobile-to-develop-a-secure-mobility-platform-301097065.html

Android's SE Linux core was similarly developed with US Government support.

I understood that my main user page was to be deleted for insufficient notability per a separate thread.
 * Hey, uh, make sure you sign your comments with four tildes like this: ⸺RandomStaplers (talk) 19:08, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, apologies if I'm nitpicking, but I don't think press releases are notable? When I think notable, I think of Android publications like Android Authority, Android Police, LWN.net, XDA-Developers (not the forum though, per WP:RS.), in addition to the big publications like The Verge and the New York Times. ⸺RandomStaplers (talk) 19:15, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

⸺ Mr Random Stapler (Office Space reference?). Android Police makes sense as a bar for consumer notoriety, although may not capture what happens around government. NY Times seems a high PR bar for any custom distribution. My intent was to make the list more comprehensive, timely, and accurate.


 * We have high bars because of controversies that have happened in the past, and the various hoaxes and errors that have stayed under the radar as a result of Wikipedia having too much scope. It stretches volunteers thin. We just had a major errors come up on Scots Wikipedia involving scope.I'll leave this here: if a company, instead of making an Android distribution, made several Gentoo or LFS-based distros for use only by the government, should we document them all? When anyone can make a distro with tons of tutorials on the Web?⸺RandomStaplers (talk) 20:33, 21 November 2020 (UTC)