User talk:Sde~enwiki
Dear Ms. Marmins,
Thank you for your inquiry regarding Synergy/DE and the associated AfD. I appreciate your efforts, and those of your colleagues, to turn this article into a less "markety" one. However, the article in its current form is still highly biased; in fact, its contents are comprised solely of a list of features. How could that be considered "unbiased"?
Compare your article to the following: COBOL, PL/I, and RPG programming language. All of these contain sections about the history of the language, criticisms of it, and comparisons to other programming languages. And like all legitimate articles, these three provide a host of external references and citations, which is a key requirement in every encyclopedia. Your article has none of that.
On September 23 you removed the {{advertisement}} tag that was placed there by another editor. I believe that was a mistake on your part; having this tag on an article automatically places it in a highly-visible category, essentially inviting other editors to improve the article. By taking the tag off, you essentially condemned the article to remain in its current, "corporate-driven" form.
I am still puzzled by the copyright status of this article; if it was indeed written by an "independent user", why does Synergex Inc. still claim copyright to the contents? The Wikimedia Foundation is very sensitive to issues of copyright, as well as to commercial exploitation of Wikipedia.
I would be happy to see the Synergy/DE article grow to a well-balanced, informative, critical, and thoroughly-referenced article. In fact, I bet Synergex would get better publicity if you included a collection of humorous anecdotes about the language, amusing compiler bugs, or other trivia that would catch the attention of the reader. It is not too late--find a couple of experienced Wikipedia editors who have used the language; I'm sure they'd be happy to lend a hand.
In any case, the matter is no longer in my hands. Once the period for comment has ended, an independent Administrator will decide whether to keep this article or not. Owen× ☎ 18:53, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed
Hello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
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Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
02:37, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
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18:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)