Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distributed Inter-Process Communication


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was speedy keep.  Nomination is "clearly an attempt to end an editing dispute through deletion." Dispute has been properly reported at WP:ANEW; any further issues should be discussed on the talk page or other avenues identified at WP:DR. Non-admin closure. KuyaBriBri Talk 17:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Distributed Inter-Process Communication

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Mohsen Sharifi from Iran University of Science and Technology has been using this page for personal propaganda. He has been claiming that DIPC is his idea and that he has been working on it since 1997. Please refer to DIPC's home page below to see why this is not so.

A quick Internet search shows that Mohsen Sharifi tried to sell DIPC by renaming it as "C-Sharifi" a few years ago. Failing to market this vaporware product (in spite of flooding the Internet with the same post), he has been trying to instead get credit for DIPC.

Professional and Ethical honesty is of utmost importance in all scientific matters. Wikipedia maintainers should either stop Mohsen Sharifi from misuing this page, or remove DIPC's page all-together, so it won't be misused any further for personal use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J123Jordan (talk • contribs) 2009/05/18 07:36:52
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:24, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep. There does seem to be a superior version in the history, before an apparently long standing edit war broke out, apparently between Dr. Sharifi and his detractors.  There may be issues with the notability of this whatever-it-is generally, but no grounds for deleting the article are stated in this nomination. AfD is not for resolving edit wars. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Edit warring ticket opened at Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think this is a keep-but-cleanup. It won't be hard now you've got our attention William M. Connolley (talk) 15:38, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Please Read: Many people have contributed to DIPC's design and development, but Mohsen Sharifi just isn't one of them. Allowing his comments to stay is unfair to everybody else who actually did something useful for the project. Mohsen Sharifi's contribution was to rename DIPC 2.1 as C-Sharifi (notice the name? He likes to possess things) and try to sell it. This is of course illegal because DIPC is GPL code.

So I'll try to provide evidence to show who did what in DIPC's development. Please notice Mohsen Sharifi's contribution in the list. It politely means "not much"

If the following doesn't settle the matter, I don't know what will.

"Original DIPC system by: Kamran Karimi (karimi@cs.uregina.ca) Version 3.0 by: Kyle Centers (kyle.centers@dynetics.com)
 * ) From the file AUTHORS in Sourceforge's Alpha 3.0 version of DIPC:

See also docs/dipc.people for other contributions"


 * ) From the file docs/dipc.people in the 2.1-beta version of DIPC: (Sorry this is long. This file and Mohsen Sharifi's corresponding entry have been present since the first release of DIPC, but Mohsen Sharifi never contested it until after his C-Sharifi failed to sell)

"Here is a list of the people who have been involved in DIPC.

In alphabetical order: * Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) Port of DIPC to Linux/MIPS. * Andrew R. Baker (andrewb@uab.edu) Beta tester for DIPC on Linux/MIPS.

* Miguel Barreiro Paz (enano@ceu.fi.udc.es) Support for glibc. Port of DIPC to Linux/Alpha.

* Tim Bynum (tjbynum@wallybox.cei.net) Donation and management of a web page and a mailing list for DIPC. Preparing DIPC's man pages. WAN tester.

* Diego Carvalho (diego.carvalho@cern.ch) Got DIPC to work on SMP systems. Beta tester for DIPC on Linux/SMP systems.

* Greg Cavanagh (why@bu.edu) Beta tester for DIPC on Linux/i386. Provided remote access to an i386 cluster for testing purposes.

* Hugo Delchini (delchini@lpnp09.in2p3.fr) Beta tester for DIPC on Linux/PowerPC. Beta tester for DIPC on clusters with diskless machines.

* Armando de Oliveira Fortuna (fortuna@lcad.icmc.sc.usp.br) Beta tester for DIPC on Linux/i386.

* Padraig Finnerty (padraigf@compapp.dcu.ie) Beta tester. Found the bugs in 1.1b.

* Kamran Karimi (karimi@cs.uregina.ca) The original author.

* Paul Mackerras (paulus@cs.anu.edu.au) Beta tester for DIPC on Linux/PowerPC. Support for glibc 2.1.

* Michael Schmitz (schmitz@lcbvax.cchem.berkeley.edu) The main person behind DIPC's port to Linux/M68k and kernel 2.x.x.  Network byte order data conversion. Support for glibc. Preparing DIPC's man pages. WAN tester. Suggested and implemented many corrections and improvments.

* Mohsen Sharifi (mshar@vax.ipm.ac.ir) Kamran Karimi's MS thesis advisor, and a great source of encouragement.

* Klaus Thielking-Riechert (k.thielking@link-n.cl.sub.de) Helped in DIPC's port to Linux/M68k and kernel 2.x.x.  Beta tester. WAN tester." Kkarimi (talk) 16:02, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep as per edit war tag. -- Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 17:40, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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