User talk:JMSwtlk
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[edit] AI Winter
Thank you so much for writing that article- that was (along with Russell Noftsker) one of the most pervasive and annoying red links in the general Lisp area of Wikipedia. I was quite afraid I was going to have to write it, a problem since in most respects I wasn't even around when it happened! :) That isn't to say it doesn't need work (like for instance, who coined it?) but it's pretty good. --Maru (talk) Contribs 18:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Commercial players
Hi JMSwtlk. In reference to the Product Lifecycle Management page, I appreciate that you are interested in working on a useful commercial players section. My intention in removal of the section was not to exclude mention of any commercial players as it may have seemed to you, but to prevent the spam that had been growing rapidly on that page and many others.
To give you a bit of history, I have been monitoring many project management pages for quite some time, because they are a magnet for spam from (often equally useless) software companies. In some cases, other editors and I have come to the agreement that getting rid of a "Vendors" or "External links" section altogether would be the best idea. Usually it would be too difficult to decide who needs mentioning and who doesn't, since every company that finds the page feels for some reason or another that they deserve to be mentioned. In other cases some work has actually been done to maintain an appropriate list.
I arrived at the Product Lifecycle Management page by checking the contributions of a spam IP address (that was adding www.workflow-saperion.com to many pages). While in a list of companies or products with no other information, such as was on the page, is sure to contain some valid items, the number of pointless additions is too great and explanations too little for any of the items to be useful. I don't feel such lists should exist anywhere on Wikipedia, as Wikipedia is definitely not a Web directory. Anyway, I certainly wouldn't oppose an intelligent list of relevant commercial players in the field. I just wanted to prevent spammers such as the workflow-saperion.com people from having any place to put their links.
Sorry for the long-winded reply. Just wanted you to know where I was coming from. -- Renesis13 05:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Duck
See Talk:Duck#Duck test for computers Anthony Appleyard 15:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on User:JMSwtlk/FaithAndIndependentInvestigationOfTheTruth, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Calton | Talk 06:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
