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Thanks for the feedback. I will try to add more actual content to the page when I find the time. :D --DFRussia 04:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Not for loss

An article that you have been involved in editing, Not for loss, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Not for loss. Thank you. Ra2007 (talk) 22:52, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] System Architect article expanded to establish its notability, in answer to a notability tag you had placed

Hello Elmindreda,

I have added information to the System Architect (Software) page to demonstrate its notability. System Architect is the market leader in the world of enterprise architecture. For example, in the Dept of Defense arena, which is a prime motivator of enterprise architectures -- System Architect has 70 percent of the market share. In the article I've referenced a study done by the OASD (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense) in 2005 that showed 77 percent of 96 on-going architecture programs that responded to the survey were using System Architect. In this market, System Architect has become synonomous with building DoDAF architectures. Additionally, Gartner rates System Architect as the number 1, leading enterprise architecture tool, placing it as far to the upper right of its quadrant for such tools. I haven't referenced the Gartner reports because they don't freely distribute such information; you have to pay for it. I've mentioned that System Architect was one of the first Windows-based CASE tools. It is widely used in the marketplace with hundreds of thousands of licenses sold. System Architect is certainly as well known in its arena as other modeling tools represented on Wikipedia, such as ERWin (which has become synonomous with data modeling), Rational Rose (which at one point was synonomous with UML modeling), and other modeling tools represented on wikipedia (some of which are relatively new, and much-less-well-known or notable in comparison).

Let me know if the information that I've added is sufficient to remove the notability tag that you have placed on the article.

Lou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Louv (talk • contribs) 15:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More on System Architect

Hi Elmindreda,

I have also now added numerous references to professionally published books in the field that have mentioned or used System Architect, and numerous articles by independant publishers that refer to System Architect or work done with it. Having reviewed numerous other pages for other software tools that reside on Wikipedia, I feel certain that the "notability" tag should be removed. I am wondering how this happens and who does it. If you know, please let me know.

Thank you,

Lou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Louv (talk • contribs) 23:00, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Additional Changes to System Architect Based on Two New Tags

Hi Elmindreda,

Thanks very much for adjusting the article to make the book references better and the other things that you did. You made the article read better. Some of the verbiage that I had previously added, such as that System Architect was 'a "leading" enterprise architecture tool', was put in to answer the not-noteworthy tag, so I may have been going off on a tangent there in responding to the tag.

I have just gone through and edited the article to remove promotional language. Please take a look. There is one sentence, in history, where I write that System Architect has evolved into one of the first in a new breed of enterprise architecture tools. Although this seems somewhat promotional, I think it is honest, and also is important to let the reader know that there has been a shift in the field from old-fashioned CASE tools of two generations ago, to the modern enterprise architecture tools of today. Wikipedia at this point, in fact, does not yet have a category for Enterprise Architecture tools, and has some rather misleading and dated information on its Computer-aided-software-engineering (CASE) page. I think a category for Enterprise Architecture tools should be created. Perhaps I will do this when I have a chance.

I took information from the "Technical Overview" section that I had, and put it into a "Features" section. In doing this, I followed the lead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDesigner, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER/Studio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparx_Enterprise_Architect, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Software_Architect.

I left in some paragraphs in the Technical Overview section because I believe the list of features doesn't do the reader enough justice -- some of these features should be explained in a neutral, unbiased, factual way, otherwise the reader who is a novice to these tools is looking at a running list of things that may or may not make any sense to them. If you don't agree, we could remove that whole Technical Overview section.

I added text for the books that reference or use System Architect in a new section called "Publications". I wanted to separate it from the information that textually describes how System Architect is used. I wanted to keep this information about how System Architect was used in these books because I feel that a straight list of "Further reading" doesn't exactly tell the reader what they can expect to find in these texts -- in other words, it isn't clear to the novice reader that these texts provide actual references and sample models built with the tool, versus simply providing more information on the methods that this software product supports.

I've eliminated some of the references in the External Links section as you suggested.

As with any article on Wikipedia, this is a work in progress. Let me know if the adjustments that I've made are sufficient to remove the two tags that you've placed, and if you have any other ideas on how to improve the article.

Lou —Preceding unsigned comment added by Louv (talk • contribs) 19:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


Hi Elmindreda,

Thanks again for your edits. They have again tighted the page and made it more digestible to read. I've made a change to the statement leading into that survey by MITRE, removing the word "widely" from the preceding paragraph, and specifying what the acronym NII means in an attempt to remove the attribution tag that was there.

As for the renaming of the CASE page, I think the page should be renamed to "Modeling Tools", or "Analysis and Design Modeling Tools". That is what they've been referred to for the last 15 years or so; CASE is an outdated term that kind of died out in the early nineties.

I hope that I have understood the instructions on signing a talk, and will successfully sign this comment by placing four tildes at the bottom of this piece.

Lou

Louv (talk) 18:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


Thanks Elmindreda, It was a pleasure working with you as well.

Louv (talk) 03:41, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk on Ethical Issues of Autism Treatment

Could you comment on the talk page regarding ethical issues of autism treatment. ThanksJosh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 05:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I have replied on my talk page.Josh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 19:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replied again :) Josh.Pritchard.DBA (talk) 20:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

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