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Open file format has an RfC

Open file format has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.

MP4 file format has an RfC

MP4 file format has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.

ISO base media file format has an RfC

ISO base media file format has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.

Proposed deletion of LSE/OS

The article LSE/OS has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

originally written by developers of the OS, does not seem notable, page about the lab was also previously deteled

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gnisacc (talk) 22:32, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FAR for Microsoft Security Essentials

I have nominated Microsoft Security Essentials for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sohom (talk) 03:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Ecolego#Requested move 6 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ecolego#Requested move 6 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 11:05, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Arrest of Pavel Durov#Requested move 28 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Arrest of Pavel Durov#Requested move 28 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 05:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is a First-Time contributor qualified to write an article from scratch? (Topaz Labs)

Hello, my name is Asaf 👋🏻

I'm a 27 y/o male software engineer with 5 years of experience. I've recently become responsible for my company's internal documentation. I want to improve my knowledge and skills in this area, by contributing to Wikipedia & learning its style. I'm curious about how the Wikipedia editors' community views a first-time contributor like me. Am I qualified to write an article from scratch? perhaps I'm expected to clean up existing pages first?

Thanks in advance for any feedback 🙏🏻 Asaf.s.lumen (talk) 15:52, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a wiki administrator, but I would say read MOS and BEBOLD, then go for it.

If you're nervous then write the article in a SANDBOX and then ask for a review. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 17:33, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We encourage working on existing articles before trying to write a new one but if you want to disregard that advice, you're free to. You need to be WP:AUTOCONFIRMED to create a new article directly in mainspace but anyone can use WP:AFC. ~Kvng (talk) 13:58, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Project scope

Are articles covering concepts concerned with software design under the scope of this project? A couple of examples to gauge:

Could the extent be clarified more in the scope somehow? E.g. also including 'software development'? Tule-hog (talk) 01:49, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]