earthpigg
November 28th, 2009, 08:36 PM
howdy,
this thread is a sanity check.
I added smartmontools to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools) article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools). to the best of my understanding, it is the gold-standard that is used by Linux users for checking the health of a hard drive.
I had references for every column from a variety of websites - linuxjournal, ubuntu wiki, arch wiki, sourceforge, and some others. (they got lost when me and the undo-er where editing the article at the same time)
Someone undid my contribution, saying that smartmontools lacked notability.
in the 'discussion' of the article i justified its notability by pointing out that a google search for "s.m.a.r.t. linux" returns result after result pointing people to smartmontools. my logic is that if linux is notable enough for its own article, and it s.m.a.r.t. is notable enough for its own article, and if a "Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools" is notable enough for its own article.... surely the most used tool for putting those two (linux and s.m.a.r.t.) together is notable.
so, yeah... am i nuts?
this thread is a sanity check.
I added smartmontools to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools) article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools). to the best of my understanding, it is the gold-standard that is used by Linux users for checking the health of a hard drive.
I had references for every column from a variety of websites - linuxjournal, ubuntu wiki, arch wiki, sourceforge, and some others. (they got lost when me and the undo-er where editing the article at the same time)
Someone undid my contribution, saying that smartmontools lacked notability.
in the 'discussion' of the article i justified its notability by pointing out that a google search for "s.m.a.r.t. linux" returns result after result pointing people to smartmontools. my logic is that if linux is notable enough for its own article, and it s.m.a.r.t. is notable enough for its own article, and if a "Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools" is notable enough for its own article.... surely the most used tool for putting those two (linux and s.m.a.r.t.) together is notable.
so, yeah... am i nuts?