User talk:SourDinosaur

Speedy deletion nomination of Screenster


A tag has been placed on Screenster, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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 * Can you please provide a couple of more details on what exactly is promotional about the Screenster article? I'd really like to improve the article, and I'd appreciate it if I could get some detailed feedback on it. When writing the initial variant, I used the Ranorex article as an example, which has roughly the same structure. Moreover, the voice of my article seems more neutral (but that is, of course, subjective). SourDinosaur (talk) 09:29, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I took another look and decided it doesn't meet the criteria for speedy deletion. However, as with Ranorex, I consider detailed lists of a product's features that are more pertinent to potential users of the product as differentiators rather than to encyclopedia readers as characteristics of general interest to be a bit promotional. Also, while the ability to record a scenario in addition to being able to script is a plus, I'm trying to figure out how you've positioned the lack of a scripting language as a positive. (So if you've recorded a scenario and now want a slightly different scenario, or if you made one mistake during your recording session, you have to step through the whole thing all over again?) That's marketing! (Unless I'm misunderstanding something, that is.)
 * I'm considering nominating the article for deletion, though, on the grounds that the software doesn't appear to meet the notability requirements for inclusion on Wikipedia. I find few sources, even including the ones listed in the article, that cover the software, and those are mostly affiliated insofar as they are written by someone from the company (Ilya Goncharov) or a person who identifies himself as a "Screenster evangelist" (Michael Tomara). Largoplazo (talk) 12:49, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for giving it a chance. I'll try to improve the article within this week — I just need to figure out how exactly I can do this. Regarding the list of features and the lack of a scripting language: I didn't intend to make these points sound as advantages (and I'll probably need to rewrite them in a more neutral tone). As of now, that information is in the article because it makes it clear that this tool is not a library or framework. There is no Wikipedia article on record-playback testing tools, so I though that an explanation of the record-playback functionality might prove valuable to someone doing a research on QA automation tools.


 * Regarding the third-party sources: given the fact that the tool has been released last spring, they may be hard to find, but I'll try to. SourDinosaur (talk) 13:12, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

December 2017
Hello, I'm Walter Görlitz. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Regression testing have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:59, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Screenster


The article Screenster has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Promotional article by SPA. No evidence of notability. A WP:BEFORE shows no independent RS coverage that would meet WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:GNG or any other notability guideline. Tagged for notability issues since 2017; it's unlikely this article will organically improve."

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