User talk:Tmaufer

IMS
You added some content to the article IP Multimedia Subsystem which possibly will deleted again. Please understand that WP is no advertising platform. So announcements for conferences and exhibitors are not wanted. --Kgfleischmann (talk) 06:04, 18 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I added that because it seemed relevant -- but agree it's only temporarily relevant. After it's over, in 2 weeks (for GMI) or 2 months (for Plugfest VI), I planned to delete it. However, I thought it was also useful for readers to show the growth/maturity of the technology and that type of information can be re-cast into something that could stay. What do you think? Tmaufer (talk) 07:44, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm behind a proxy and I can't edit until I get home from this trip
Tmaufer (talk) 15:12, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Recent Mu Dynamics Reversion
You just reverted a significant edit done by an IP in an inappropriate way, and you need to resolve it properly, somehow. Someone made a very deliberate, systematic, and clearly thoughtful revision to the page, and it wasn't appropriate to label it "vandalism", because it clearly was not vandalism. In fact, I liked the end result a lot better than the previous revision to which you reverted the page.

I said before that that page as written reads more like a corporate press release than like an encyclopedia page about a small and relatively insignificant company. The company I work for, which has more than twice the employees and that produces software used by tens of millions of people every month, doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. I also said that the focus of the page needs to be on the company proper itself, and not almost entirely devoted to the product or the product philosophy, both of which, if relevant, should be on their own pages. Whoever did those edits did a pretty thorough job of attempting to fix both of those exact points, as it turns out.

You need to carefully consider how you're editing that page. It's clear from previous comments that you're closely connected to the company in some way, probably an employee, and that this is causing you to violate WPL:NPOV every time you do an edit. This recent reversion was pretty egregious in that regard. As someone with a clear emotional stake in the page, you need to make a careful commitment to attempting to correct factual mistakes only, and by avoiding any involvement in setting the tone or direction of the page. If you think the tone or direction is going badly, you should appeal to some neutral editor to adjudicate, rather than unilaterally fixing it yourself.

I'd suggest that you revert your reversion and voice your complaints on the talk page, and see what someone else thinks on the topic. I was going to do exactly this myself, but I wanted to give you the chance to resolve it yourself. Jokeboy (talk) 21:58, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Before I edit...
I'm not averse to making some of these changes. What got my hackles up was that the person who made the changes did them from a relatively anonymous IP address. That's why it felt like vandalism to me. Maybe that's more normal in the wikipedia, but I feel that it's important to sign your name to changes. And look at the history...we have had competitors making changes that definitely were vandalism. Yes, I work at the company. I'm not sure how you measure significance, but I don't think it's relevant here. My goal is to make this page good enough to be worthy of the wikipedia. I have made considerable progress to date, but I realize it can still be better. I appreciate your help, and I will take steps to incorporate the suggestions in the next day or two. tmaufer (talk) 18:35, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Mu Dynamics
A tag has been placed on Mu Dynamics, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Mu Dynamics and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. — Dgtsyb (talk) 07:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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Packet analyzer
Please have a look around at the manual of style before you edit this or any other article. E_dog95'  Hi ' 19:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * sorry...this pcapr service is related to packet captures and such, and I wanted to put it in a relevant place in the wikipedia tmaufer (talk) 19:37, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You might know enough about the pcapr packet capture service to write something about it. That would be a welcome addition to the article. E_dog95'   Hi ' 19:42, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah-hah. I see what you meant. FYI, pcapr is basically a web-based shell wrapped around wireshark; it's main differentiator is that operations like concatenating packets are much easier in pcapr than they are in command-line tools. As far as decoding goes, pcapr seems to be much the same as wireshark/ethereal/tcpdump. The cool stuff it does are to bundle packets together, re-write and re-fragment packets, etc. This kind of operation is theoretically possible with command-line packet-munging tools, but is difficult for anyone but an expert. FYI, I think I can get you an invitation if you like. I'm not sure I have the time today to write this new sub-section, but I'll put it on my to-do list. Thanks very much for the feedback. tmaufer (talk) 19:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Mu Dynamics
Glad you approve of the edits. I was concerned that I took a pretty drastic hatchet to it, and that you'd go ballistic. I've wanted to do that for a while, but I didn't think there was a consensus to do so until now. Going forward, be careful about adding self-serving stuff. One thing I was glad to whack were pointers to Mu Dynamics press releases, for instance, which aren't even slightly neutral in content... Jokeboy (talk) 01:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The page needs more editors. I'm happy to have your input; I can't disagree with anything you said, or did. It's all good. tmaufer (talk) 18:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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