User talk:Laurawgenesyn

File:GD2Back.jpg‎‎ and File:GD2Front.jpg

Hi.

If you don't believe File:GD2Back.jpg‎‎ and File:GD2Front.jpg are respectively screenshots of software on Windows and OS X, please cite a source. Otherwise, their uncanny resemblance warrants their presence in their corresponding category.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 23:23, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I was under the impression that you were saying GeneDesigner was Windows Software (i.e. created by Microsoft and part of the Windows suite), not other software that happens to be open on a computer running a Windows operating system. The page that you linked the image to is titled "Category:Screenshots of Windows software". The majority of examples on this page are in fact windows software: the various software and accessories designed and produced by Microsoft that come pre-loaded on your Windows enabled computer. Ditto for the "Category:Screenshots of OS X software" link and page. It is unclear whether these pages should include any software open on a computer running these operating systems or whether the pages are for software specifically developed and released as part of those operating systems. If it is the latter, the pages should probably be renamed. If the former, then these screenshots do not warrant inclusion on the Windows or OS X pages. As Gene Designer is neither Windows nor Apple software, I did not believe them to belong to either category.

Would very much appreciate further clarification.

Regards, Laurawgenesyn (talk) 16:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You are right about components of operating systems. I am moving them into subcategories of Category:Screenshots of Microsoft Windows, e.g. Category:Screenshots of Windows 8. But they are a lot. I am not done yet. As for screenshots of OS X components, I'll see what happens when I am done with Windows.

Here is a rule of thumb: "Windows component" means a program that comes with Windows. "Windows software" means the entire set of computer programs that are developed so that they run on Windows. They might or might not belong to Microsoft. (Compare Microsoft Office with VLC media player.)

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:12, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much Codename Lisa for the clarification and helping to sort out the pages. Definitely a different subset. Good luck with your work in moving and tagging all the images.

Regards, Laurawgenesyn (talk) 17:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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