User talk:SteveLoughran

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[edit] Amazon S3 / Web Services

I appreciate your contributions to Amazon S3 and Amazon Web Services, but without verifiable sources they are not appropriate. If you can find other sources to back up your statements, please cite them; otherwise, this is material that is better suited to an outside blog or forum than Wikipedia. White 720 (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Before I added the S3 content there was nothing but advertising links. Some of the content there may need citation, in which case it could be moved to the talk page. Deletion is overkill. There's no point blogging it as Wikipedia doesnt believe blogs as sources of valid data. The trace of the behaviour on a GET of a nonexistent page is not OR, it is documentation of a replicable experiment. Everything needed to copy it is there, go type telnet on a port. Therefore it is self-citing.
Overall, I'm disappointed that you felt the need to delete the information from S3, not even move it to the talk pages. It doesn't make me motivated to improve the article. What was there was nothing, what you have left it with is nothing, what it used to be was informative. Now, given that you work for Amazon, perhaps you could correct its inaccuracies, by moving the information to the talk page and improving it there, rather than deleting it entirely.

SteveLoughran (talk) 22:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

It's been moved to Talk:Amazon_S3#OR_removed_from_page. There are plenty of blogs, official and otherwise, that talk about Amazon S3's technical details. That Wikipedia doesn't consider some blogs authoritative is immaterial. I removed the section because it does not fit with Wikipedia's policy on original research, specifically that synthesizing material based on other sources is not permitted. If you can find other credible sources to back up your data, be they blogs, books, or other verifiable and reliable media, please cite them in your reinsertion of this section.
Although you have provided information that is plainly available (e.g. results of telnet sessions) you did not indicate why this information is notable. Most of what you wrote, such as the section about catch-all fourth-level domains, is common among Internet services and has not been commented upon by sources enough to assert its notability. White 720 (talk) 02:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)