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Muhammad
September 10th, 2005, 06:57 PM
Check out the bottom of this page!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#External_links

bob_c_b
September 10th, 2005, 06:59 PM
Very nice, love the Wiki!

BWF89
September 10th, 2005, 07:07 PM
That doesn't really belong there.

Muhammad
September 10th, 2005, 07:09 PM
It doesn't? Why?

ubuntu_demon
September 10th, 2005, 07:15 PM
That doesn't really belong there.
true and if it should belong there then it has to be a big list (of Operating Systems) instead of only 1 item.

Muhammad
September 10th, 2005, 08:24 PM
That's why I put "Alternatives" so people could add more later on. ;)

BTW,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer (Ctrl+F: Firefox) (bottom of the page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OS-tans#Ubuntu-tan (Ctrl+F: Ubuntu)

http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/eusa_dance.gif

poofyhairguy
September 10th, 2005, 08:57 PM
That's why I put "Alternatives" so people could add more later on. ;)

BTW,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer (Ctrl+F: Firefox) (bottom of the page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OS-tans#Ubuntu-tan (Ctrl+F: Ubuntu)

http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/eusa_dance.gif

Please, please, please, please someone add more distros to that today! I don't have time, but that looks bad. Please! Linspire. SUSE. Xandros.

Please!

TravisNewman
September 10th, 2005, 09:05 PM
I don't see an Alternatives section there. Perhaps someone deleted it.

I think its valid, as long as there are more.

EDIT: looks like someone got rid of your firefox reference at the bottom of the IE page as well

Muhammad
September 10th, 2005, 09:17 PM
EDIT: looks like someone got rid of your firefox reference at the bottom of the IE page as well

No the Firefox link at the bottom of the IE page is still there and so is Opera.

But the Ubuntu Link at the bottom of the XP page is missing...

*re-edits*

BWF89
September 10th, 2005, 09:31 PM
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is suppost to provice useful information. Not a "use Microsoft alternatives pedia".

The Windows page mentions Linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows#See_also (Windows vs. Linux)
and listing a bunch of alternative OS's really has nothing to do with the subject of the article

But if you are going to add alternatives instead of adding "Ubuntu" to the page you should have just added "Linux, Macintosh, Unix, BSD, BeOS, etc". When you add 1 specific Linux distro everyone who uses Linux is going to go to that page and add the distro they use and before you know it theres dozens of Linux OS's listed there.

The Internet Explorer allready mentioned alternative browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Usage_share
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#See_also (list of web browsers and comparison of web browsers)

And when you put the links in the "Alternatives" section you linked to their official site instead of linking to their Wikipedia page example: [[Ubuntu Linux]], [[Mozilla Firefox]].

And if you put an "alternatives" section for Internet Explorer you would have to put an alternatives section for Firefox and all the competing browsers too which would be very time consuming.

EDIT: And I'm not the one who's deleting your alternatives sections off the pages incase you were wondering.

Sushi
September 10th, 2005, 09:39 PM
I assume someone will add Windows to entries about ubuntu and Linux as an "alternative" to those?

Seriously, that "alternatives"-thingy has no place there. I'd suggest that you remove it.

Muhammad
September 10th, 2005, 10:08 PM
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is suppost to provice useful information. Not a "use Microsoft alternatives pedia".

The Windows page mentions Linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows#See_also (Windows vs. Linux)
and listing a bunch of alternative OS's really has nothing to do with the subject of the article

But if you are going to add alternatives instead of adding "Ubuntu" to the page you should have just added "Linux, Macintosh, Unix, BSD, BeOS, etc". When you add 1 specific Linux distro everyone who uses Linux is going to go to that page and add the distro they use and before you know it theres dozens of Linux OS's listed there.

The Internet Explorer allready mentioned alternative browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#Usage_share
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer#See_also (list of web browsers and comparison of web browsers)

And when you put the links in the "Alternatives" section you linked to their official site instead of linking to their Wikipedia page example: [[Ubuntu Linux]], [[Mozilla Firefox]].

And if you put an "alternatives" section for Internet Explorer you would have to put an alternatives section for Firefox and all the competing browsers too which would be very time consuming.

EDIT: And I'm not the one who's deleting your alternatives sections off the pages incase you were wondering.


Never looked at it that way, I better go delete them. :)

But adding the Ubuntu-tan is a neat idea, no?

Kvark
September 10th, 2005, 11:18 PM
Never looked at it that way, I better go delete them. :)

But adding the Ubuntu-tan is a neat idea, no?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan

Any OS-tan girl that exists in the external resources that article refers to is accurate to put on the list and should definately be added to it.

Anything that doesn't exist in the OS-tan scene outside of wikipedia probably shouldn't exist in wikipedia either.

The purpose is to provide information about what actually does exist in the OS-tan phenomenon.