User talk:WIFIER

Comparison of wireless site survey applications
The purpose of this message is to stop the edit war. You keep on reverting the edits regarding iBwave Wi-Fi. I would like to draw your attention to the following facts:

1. The history of your contributions and multiple references to "future plans" leaves little doubt as to the identity of your employer, iBwave Solutions. This means that you most probably add information about your own company's product/service. Such activities are in violation of the WP rules. I quote:

"You are discouraged from writing articles about yourself or organizations (including their campaigns, clients, products and services) in which you hold a vested interest. If you feel that there is material within an existing article which is incorrect or not neutral, please point this out on the article's talk page. Likewise, if you have content which you think should be added, please discuss this on the talk page. Using the template "Request edit" will help draw attention to your request. The COI guideline very strongly discourages direct article editing, particularly if you have a financial conflict of interest; see WP:NOPAY."

2. Regarding specific edits, let me explain why I removed a few of them:


 * "Full DB of Parts (APs, Cabling, Routers,etc.)" -- "Cabling" and "etc" are not relevant to site survey functionality. "APs" and "Routers" are relevant, but any product that has the predictive modeling functionality contains such database. If you look at, say, Ekahau Site Survey, you will notice that it comes with scores of AP templates. You can't do decent predictive modeling without it, so your "Full DB of Parts" column becomes a synonym of the "Predictive Surveys" column. There is no point in having both of them.


 * "Cloud storage" is totally irrelevant to site surveys. An application may or may not have this functionality; this makes no difference within the context of site surveying. It's like having the "Cool-looking design" column. Okay, NetSpot looks cooler than AirMagnet, but so what?


 * "Read-only version for customers" -- again, this makes no difference within the context of site surveying. You're not selling your software here, right?


 * "Prediction Calibration" -- maybe. To be discussed on the talk page. I'll leave it for now.

3. All references should point to independent sources. Give a reference to a book. Give a reference to an article in a reputable online magazine. Don't give references to yourself. Without independent sources of information, your contributions are "original research". Original research should not be used in WP articles. I have heard of iBwave before and I know that this is a notable product, but other editors will inevitably delete your product at some point simply because you don't reference any sources. Please work on that.

Considering all of the above, I kindly request that you refrain from editing articles related to your own products and from recreating the table columns I referenced above. If you disagree with this request, please follow the dispute resolution procedure so that we could invite more experts and discuss this issue openly.

WiFiEngineer (talk) 10:29, 12 April 2016 (UTC)