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Several templates like {{WikiProject Software}} and {{WikiProject Microsoft Windows}} automatically list the article in the Computing categories. They also provide a general computing importance assessment even if it's not explicitly provided. This inherited assessment is often misleading: something high-importance in Windows might be low-importance to computing. Similarly, something high-importance in computing might be only in a small way related to Software, Windows, etc.

I'd like to remove the automatic inheritance and change to this behavior: articles retain their Software or Windows importance, but are listed as Unknown-importance for Computing unless a general computing assessment is explicitly provided using computing-importance=.

This will help in three ways:

1. Encourage making a better importance assessment for general computing
2. Avoid unexpected changes to the Computing importance that result from changing e.g. the Software or Windows importance
3. Bring attention to the parameter for general computing importance, reducing the likelihood of articles accidently being listed in multiple Computing importance categories. (This causes false entries in the Computing reassessment log – see discussion at WP:COMP/A – and likely other problems as well.) --Pnm (talk) 22:55, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a good idea to me. —Ruud 02:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I support this. --Kvng (talk) 14:38, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree --trevj (talk) 08:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all, coming from Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2011 March 4#Digital_number I am sort of surprised that we really don't have a suitable article to redirect to. I've been looking what the most reasonable article is to create. I'm thinking of something like number representation system which would be a sort of summary style article, or possibly a list of number reprensentation systems? That would leave the called for redirect still hanging. Something like number representation (computer science) which could be a summary style article, looking at integer representation, signed/unsigned, endianess, floating point representation, big number representation etc? What do you guys think? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:28, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's Computer numbering formats, but that needs some work. Also, Signed number representations. —Ruud 20:35, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ouch, that certainly needs work, if not a complete rewrite, but would at least be suitable as a redirect target for the discussion. There are also floating point number, binary notation etc. etc. that all discuss something related, but don't do the overview. Thanks for the help. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 20:52, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notice: An RFC is being conducted here at Talk:Hard diskdrive#RFC on the use of the IEC prefixes. The debate concerns this table which includes columns comparing SI and Binary prefixes to describe storage capacity. We welcome your input

--RaptorHunter (talk) 18:12, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have an article on my user page that I would like reviewed and feel free to edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JLRedperson/HP_Business_Service_Automation The article is about HP Business Service Automation software to complement the BMC Control Manager article, the Tivoli Service Automation Manager article and the Severa article. All feedback to improve the article are most welcome.JLRedperson (talk) 23:34, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

the usage of Steve Chen is under discussion, see Talk:Steve Chen (YouTube). 65.94.45.160 (talk) 05:00, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(Apologies in advance for any improprieties; this is my first attempt to engage)

I thought to post these comments in a discussion rather than to attempt to edit the article, since this is my first attempt.

My comments refer to article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_control_board

I acknowledge first of all that "Change" Control Board is the vernacular, but the formal term for decades has been "Configuration" Control Board among Configuration Management professionals. There are historic reasons behind this, but that strays from what I want to focus on.

The article says a CCB is a committee. That is certainly one implementation, but it is not the only one or necessarily the best for a given situation. E.g. IEEE Standard 828 (2005) "Standard for Software Configuration Management Plans" says in section 3.3.2.3 "A CCB may be an individual or a group".

The critical feature of a CCB is not its size but the recorded delegation of management authority to approve what changes will and won't be made to a system under its jurisdiction.

The trade offs regarding the membership of a CCB include speed and evidence of enforced collaboration. Generally speaking, it is faster to delegate management authority to an single individual, who is accountable to gather input informally from multiple roles before pronouncing the binding decision. Automated systems can be implemented so that automated baselines/builds/deployments can be initiated as soon as the individual records an approval in a tracking tool.

On the other hand, if: - senior management wants to delegate a level of authority for some aspect of a system - senior management wants to be assured that full consensus has been sought without being personally involved

...then it may be preferable to charter a CCB as a committee. The charter could constrain committee to perform in such a way that supports auditing that the authority has been discharged as delegated. A multi-member CCB might be important for large, expensive, high impact (e.g. system failure has unacceptable consequences such as the loss of human life) applications engineered by entities with separate agendas (e.g. separate corporations or silo'd organizations within a single corporation with separate management trees).

I hope these comments are helpful,

Bill Buie (talk) 17:36, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Your arguments make sense. If no others object, go ahead and edit the article with your changes. JLRedperson (talk) 23:38, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The more appropriate place to initiate discussion on this is on the article's talk page. It sounds like you have some referenced material to contribute to the article. I recommend you be WP:BOLD and add the material to the article. Discussion beforehand is not always necessary. --Kvng (talk) 15:37, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does Talk:Instant messaging#“citation needed” en masse mean it can remain as an example of a B-class article? --Trevj (talk) 10:39, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, as of the last month or so I'm the main guy holding down the fort at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback, and I could really use some additional help. RfF has been an outstanding experience in providing editing help to new editors who really want help and, in the majority of cases, are quick to incorporate feedback and really add to the value of their articles. We've had a number of requests for feedback on computer/programming/robotics/technology articles, and I'm not really familiar with that world or with that aspect of Wiki.

RfF doesn't require any fixed time commitment, and many feedbacks can be knocked out in literally five minutes or less, so even dropping by once or twice a week for five minutes would aid considerably in answering as many requests as possible, and consequently both encouraging new editors (who may become long-term serious editors) as well as maintaining high Wikipedia standards.

If anyone is willing to step up and drop by even a few times a week for just a few minutes, I would be profoundly grateful, as that would allow me to answer more requests for topics I specialise in (history, art, religion). Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:23, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

C Sharp (programming language) has been requested to be renamed to C♯ (programming language) ; see Talk:C Sharp (programming language). 64.229.100.153 (talk) 04:34, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GNU/Linux naming controversy. - Ahunt (talk) 12:33, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I just wrote DDR4 SDRAM. As with most DDR and SDRAM, the article has to carefully distinguish clock rates and data rates. I notice someone has edited the article replacing sourced data by unsourced data and MHz by MT/s. I've reverted this and checked it to source, but as I'm not an expert I would like to ask that someone checks my revert and that the data in the article is correct (and per source).

DIFF

Thanks! FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 00:32, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

System bus model has been nominated for deletion, however on the talk page, there is a suggestion that it be merged instead of going to AfD. 184.144.163.181 (talk) 01:41, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There was no consensus, but we agreed this area needs work. I took the step of expanding the system bus article from a redirect, trying to give some historical context. Help would be appreciated if anyone is here. W Nowicki (talk) 20:56, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. New article, Music Beta by Google (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - would this come under your remit?

The hope is, as more news comes out, to expand it for a DYK at least (over the coming days).

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  17:48, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The "Edit conflict" article is at AFD, as it falls under your WikiProject I thought I would inform you. --81.164.215.61 (talk) 16:38, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In reference to ANTIC#Display list example program: I want to propose that we remove this example program from the article. The example is written in BASIC and just writes a whole bunch of numbers one-at-a-time to what appears to be an arbitrary address space. It takes specialized knowledge that the average reader isn't likely to have, even with the rest of the info in the article, to know that the starting address is within the ANTIC's default memory space and that the data being written is a properly formatted display list. The DATA numbers by themselves are meaningless and do not actually illustrate how a display list works.

I wrote in Talk:ANTIC that if we need to have this sort of technical data in the article, a disassembly example of the ANTIC's memory space would be much more useful, as the standard assembly format would clearly show each instruction and its corresponding data, and is easy to annotate appropriately. However, even then, this information would really only be useful to technical enthusiasts and programmers, while the average reader would likely find it just as confusing and irrelevant as the BASIC program. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:19, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone please review:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:PL/0#Update_links_to_external_PL.2F0_compiler

Thanks Ioquatix (talk) 14:46, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]