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History of machine translation

Thanks for your contribution, but I couldn't quite understand it. Could you rephrase it? - Francis Tyers · 09:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I think this applies particularly in the light of your comment to User:Bsradams, where you say you've been working with Bruce Wydner and that you're friends.[1] I've raised the issue at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Bruce Wydner. Gordonofcartoon 11:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Weidner articles

Re your statements at Talk:Bruce Wydner, Talk:Language technology, Talk:Weidner Communications Inc.: have you read, as I suggested above, the Wikipedia conflict of interest guidelines? Do you see the problem with your creating and directly editing articles relating to the work of someone of whom you've said "we are the best of friends"?

The general advice in such situations is that if you have such a conflict of interest, you take a back seat and help via the Talk page.

The difficulty with the existing articles is that they look blatantly promotional. You've put together material placing Weidner technology into a pivotal role in MT history and even as the most significant direct line ancestor of Wordperfect. This may or may not be true, but it's a novel assertion and as such risks being original research. You should be particularly cautious about the WP:NOR warning about Synthesis of published material serving to advance a position. Here is not the place to set the record straight.

Some of the sources aren't acceptable anyway. We can't use material such as "message to W. J. Hutchins, April 30, 2007, Bruce Wydner" that hasn't been third-party published.

I think there is a place for a Weidner article: but it needs to be neutral. It's not difficult to find sources that place the technology in its historical context (ALPS, Systran, etc) and not just reporting the market-speak. It's not difficult to find papers that tell the downside: for instance, A survey of machine translation: its history, current status, and future prospects (1988, includes Weidner company history, comparison with competitors, and candid assessment of its strengths and weaknesses); Good Applications for Crummy Machine Translation (1991, ref to Weidner kit being slower and more expensive than human translation).

Given the problems with the current articles, it would be a lot easier to scrap them and start from scratch, making sure that there is consensus at all stages that they are neutral. Gordonofcartoon 21:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Wydner

Please utilize Wikiquote, available at wikiquote.org for compiling large lists of quotes. Thank you, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 16:20, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Dennis Fairclough

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Reviewed PDOS

Hi there,

I've reviewed the article that you created at PDOS. Good work, and an interesting (if rather minor [-: ) topic. I made a few changes, but basically it's OK as a stub article. If you want to expand the topic, there is quite a bit of information in the source that you found.

Well done! --Slashme (talk) 10:05, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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