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Xmind deletion

Hi, yesterday I just want to publish the details about the mind mapping software-XMIND here. But soon it was deleted. So can you tell me what's the problem happened? Thank you very much! Stephen

Stephen0928 (talk · contribs)

Hello Stephen. It was deleted because it was written like advertising. Thanks, and have a great Friday. --Fang Aili ^talk 13:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fang Aili,

There's something strange going on at the XMIND page, and after trying to have something done about it, I see you were concerned in the past about the same entry, so perhaps you can advise me. I have twice marked the following entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMIND as needing npov, being of questionable notability, needing cleanup and having excessive links. I explained the reasons in Talk. The article itself has been improved (it was horrible English at the beginning), but still has nothing to substantiate the page's notability, and still has three links to the same commercial site.

Two explanations of my actions in Talk have been removed (Talk is now empty) and all the history of the changes was removed. I edited, logged in, on 10th and 11th October, some anon editors made changes and SmackBot added dates. All of that was deleted from history. In view of the deletion of history, I reported this more or less as above on "Administrator intervention against vandalism" against the editor who appeared to have done it Briansun. Now, my report there has disappeared, does not appear in that page's history and the XMIND page history and my Talk entries there are still missing. There is nothing explaining what happened to my request for intervention on my Talk page. As you made similar, and in my view correct, observations about XMIND's page in July, I wonder if you have any idea what might be going on?

You clearly have a great deal more WP experience than I. Isn't it against Wikipedia policy to delete Talk entries (at least when points raised in them have not been properly resolved)? How does history get deleted? Is this just some problem with server replication, perhaps and all will be visible again in a day or so? I'd appreciate your advice. Argey 12:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into it. Briansun (talk · contribs) changed Xmind into a redirect to XMIND. You can view the old Xmind page by clicking on the little link underneath the title "XMIND". Your talk page comments are still there, but under Talk:Xmind. From the looks of it, the contents of XMIND and the pre-redirect Xmind are somewhat different; you could try to sort that out and also figure out what the proper page title should be. Hope that helps! --Fang Aili ^talk 18:22, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

VPEC-T article proposal

Formerly-proposed article on VPEC-T was here (or rather at the head of this page). This has now been moved into WP as an article. My thanks to Normxxx and RichardVeryard for their advice.

Hi Argey. If you want my advice on this article, it would be good to show a broader range of references that mention and discuss VPEC-T. Preferably books and published articles rather than blog entries, by a variety of different authors. You might also want to think about connectivity within Wikipedia. For example, how does the VPEC-T line on Trust connect with the main Wikipedia article on Trust? RichardVeryard (talk) 17:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments From Normxxx:

From Normxxx: You got me! I am a retired Chief Engineer; Chief Architect; and Chief Scientist. (All within the area of software engineering, except Systems— which was both hardware and software. I started out as a Electonics Engineer on computer hardware— both digital and analog— in the 1950s!) Systems Architecture (in the modern sense) is something I contributed to greatly (at Engineering Research Corporation, NASA, IBM, the FAA, etc.) I also have advanced degrees in Mathematical Psychology (which I acquired when I got bored with engineering for a time.)

I will be back with a thorough review within a fortnight.

Normxxx (talk) 16:26, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Are you aware of the Wikipedia:Starter toolset (which I created)

Thanks. I have responded on your talk page. Argey (talk) 09:17, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Southbeach Notation

I don't understand why in the AFD for Southbeach Notation, you commented that The list of references is not insignificant - not a single one is independent and all are written by Howard Smith, one of the brains behind it. I don't really see how you consider these to be independent reliable sources of the sort that we write articles with? --Cameron Scott (talk) 13:08, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1) SPS, mention is limited to the name (trivial)
2) Seems to some form of wiki (SPS, user generated content), content seems to take from here?
3) SPS - Random diagram by random individual, mention is once again simply the name
4) SPS - Random blog
5) A directory listing
6) Talk by Howard Smith
7) SPS - random blog

it's a grab-bag of tat as far as I can see, not a RS to be seen. --Cameron Scott (talk) 14:34, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Argey, please see User talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Templates required in external wiki to run wikEd. Cacycle (talk) 20:52, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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