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July 2007 GAC backlog elimination drive
A new elimination drive of the backlog at Wikipedia:Good article candidates will take place from the month of July through August 12, 2007. There are currently about 130 articles that need to be reviewed right now. If you are interested in helping with the drive, then please visit Wikipedia:Good article candidates backlog elimination drive and record the articles that you have reviewed. Awards will be given based on the number of reviews completed. Since the potential amount of reviewers may significantly increase, please make sure to add :{{GAReview}} underneath the article you are reviewing to ensure that only one person is reviewing each article. Additionally, the GA criteria may have been modified since your last review, so look over the criteria again to help you to determine if a candidate is GA-worthy. If you have any questions about this drive or the review process, leave a message on the drive's talk page. Please help to eradicate the backlog to cut down on the waiting time for articles to be reviewed.
I noticed you changed the DockIcon image file I uploaded to be a screenshot. I uploaded that file as an icon, not as a screenshot, and it is named as such, so I reverted it back. I did save the screenshot and its clipped version is LeopardDock.png. - PGSONIC02:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Office 2k7/8
Thanks for letting me know. But I *do* think it is absolutely essential to be linked. Office 2007 introduces a new file format incompatible with the older binary format. Someone who creates an OOXML file and has a cross platform audience needs to know what is available on other platforms to consume the files, and the first thing they will search is resources on office 2k7, the software which let them create it in first place. Since this article is among the hottest sources for such information, it is necessary the needs of this people (who are no way interested in the Mac version, they just need to know if mac users will be able to view the files) are catered from here. --soumtalk09:25, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Macbook Pro
What specification do you have that says the Macbook Pro doesn't use magnetic latching? I'm using one now and it does. They're different styles of latch, but they're both magnetic in nature. Orpheus19:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I know they're completely different, but they both involve magnets in some way. I changed the article text to be more specific - thoughts? Orpheus01:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
VMware
Hello
Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to VMware Fusion. </blokquote>Does my own experience (for the crash) counts as a reliable source? This is original research, I admit. David Latapie (✒ | @) — www 16:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for a quick and good answers. I take good note of it and will try to be much more demanding toward myself for my next edit. HAve a nice day David Latapie (✒ | @) — www 01:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Competition law
Hello, thanks for the review. Could you point to what you say was factually innaccurate on the page? I'd be glad for your input - please do reply when you can on my user page. Wikidea 20:56, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Merci beaucoup pour ta reponse. Comme tu peux voir il ya un debat (specialement de la part d'une personne en particulier!), mais j'apprecie vraiment ton aide. J'espere que tes etudes se passent bien a Londres. C'est un bon endroit pour etudier le droit. Wikidea 22:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
iMovie Attributions
Hi. You dinged my updates to the iMovie entry this month and wrote to say:
"However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to iMovie, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability."
So far as I can tell, the only unverified piece of information there is that Randy Ubilos wrote the latest incaranation that runs with the title iMovie. The rest is either an obvious given (it's not a rewrite, it looks and behaves like Final Cut Pro, Steve Jobs announced that it was a new application) or based on experiences that aren't likely to appear in an Apple press briefing (what features went missing).
Furthermore, the list of missing features was compiled by yours truly from a wide variety of user forums as well as from my own experience with the new product. If, as a first person reporter, I'm unable to tell what I've found and instead must rely on someone else who's seen it posting a blog or whatnot, then that's not terribly more reliable than me posting a blog story and refering to myself as the attributed source. It rather creates opportunity for a short circuit. And if only known sources are to be allowed, say, a New York TImes reporter or something, then that severely limits the information that might be captured for posterity's sake. Not everything is reported in a journal, you know.
Finally, the original entry didn't include attributions for any of its claims. Therefore, allowing those lines to remain underscores the very arbitrary nature of your actions.
I'll leave it alone. I've no desire to scour the Apple site or make links to the New York Times archives --which 99.99% of users can't access after 7 days past the publishing date-- just to make a more accurate and complete historical record. The iMovie entry reads like an advertisement, in any case. There's not been made any serious attempt to capture iMovie in either a technical or cultural historical perspective. Then again, if the marketing documents say it, then it must be true.
Cheers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.241.94.207 (talk) 00:33, August 22, 2007 (UTC)
Question about reversion on oxycontin/oxycodone article
Hi! You reverted an edit I made to this paragraph (actaully an insert following it):
On June 7th, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision from the previous year that some of Purdue’s patents for OxyContin could not be enforced. This decision allowed and led to the immediate announcement from Endo Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. that they would begin launching a generic version of all four strengths of OxyContin.[7]
I am curious why the reversal of this decision is less important that maintaining this (now incorrect) decision in the article. I am newish to Wikipedia so perhaps I am missing something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcherrick (talk • contribs) 16:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
OS X 10.5
I'm answering this on my talk page to keep the discussion in one place, so make sure you look there. :) --Steven Fisher 20:11, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Image source problem with Image:Blsg.jpg
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Like on MacBook Pro, I am having the same problem with the un-sourced claim being added and the sourced claim being removed on the Intel iMac article. I had hope the iMac Developer Note might resolve the matter, but there is no mention of either codename. The published sources say Santa Rosa and I do not think an editor consensus can ignore that. Any insight you might add to our discussion would be appreciated. -GnuTurbo 05:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
The recent change was made because a previous user had posted a ridiculous remark about Apple and suggesting that people move to Windows. I felt it relevant to remove that remark and replace it with something more logical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.188.210.220 (talk) 12:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
You just reverted a half-dozen edits to this article over a dispute involving two paragraphs. Please don't do this. Not everyone has the time to wait until edit wars end while wanting to contribute other changes to articles. I've reverted to the previous version; if you still have a problem with the paragraphs in question then please edit them out manually (or, even better, take the dispute to the talk page). Chris Cunningham 09:58, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue. Dr. Cash 01:17, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
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Mac OS X pricing, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Mac OS X pricing satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mac OS X pricing and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Mac OS X pricing during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. shoy(wordswords) 01:19, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Need Guidance Please - Article Neutrality
Hi! I suspect that a wikiarticle is consistently being edited in favor of VMware Fusion over Parallels Desktop and is not fulfilling the Wikipedia policy of Nuetrality. I have absolutely no interest in edit wars. What do I do? The article is VMware Fusion vs Parallels Desktop. As you're a long-time contributor to software-related pages, including those for these two companies, I thought that you would know how best to address this.
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Please also read WP:V. If Mac OS X only supports twenty-two languages, provide a source that proves that. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 00:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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