Talk:Windows Speech Recognition/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 13:14, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Comments

• Opening sentence is too long, could use split.
• " as handwritten tablet PC input" sea of blue and in any case, not sure we need a link for "handwriting".
• Just a general thought, I normally expect no citations in the lead as everything mentioned there should be covered and preferably expanded upon in the main body, and that's where it can be cited.
• You list a load of OSs in the lead, but I note that "Windows Server 2008 and later" is mentioned in the inbox and literally nowhere else.
• A LOT of whitespace after the lead, consider constraining the Table of Contents to just level 2 & 3 headings.
• Image captions which aren't complete sentences should not have a period.
• "during development" the development.
• "system -- a big" en-dash, not two hyphens.
• "A prototype speech recognition Aero Wizard" this image is so small it's not really usable.
• "An alternates panel disambiguation " why in italics?
• There seems to be a variety of differing usage of italics...
• "for speech synthesis,[58] to " overlinked.
• What is the relevance of all those "See also" links other than the first one? They're all just other MS OS features, right?
• Spaced hyphens in the ref titles should be en-dashes.
• "Speech processing (−) (±)Speech processing software (−) (±)Speech recognition (−) (±)Speech recognition software (−) (±)" you problably only need the software categories as the others are generalisations of the software categories.

Generally very good, a few comments above so it's on hold. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 15:56, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Ian Wolfman I'll give this until 15 May before failing it from a lack of response. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 11:18, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

The Rambling Man I apologize for my delayed response. I have addressed points 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, and 15 and I have made several other significant edits (even effectively rewriting the information about the 2007 vulnerability reports). Please let me know what you think. (Ian Wolfman (talk) 23:55, 12 May 2020 (UTC))

The Rambling Man I have since addressed point 7, 10, and 14. I wish to discuss with you some points. For point 1, I am not sure how to address the length of the opening sentence without negatively affecting the description (EDIT: I could remove the sentence about macros; please let me know). For point 9, the image of the Aero Wizard had been resized by a bot; I resized the image on the article in an effort to compensate, but I can reupload the original image or remove the file from the article if necessary. For point 12, I wish to eventually list the macros in a different way, perhaps as a bulleted list or in a table, which would allow me to expound on their functionality. For point 13, I have since removed at least Windows HotStart and Windows Mobility Center from the "See also" section; they were originally included due to the emphasis on mobility scenarios (with WSR being listed among them in 2004 and 2005). Please let me know if you have any suggestions or thoughts. (Ian Wolfman (talk) 18:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC))

Hi Ian, just spot-checking sources, I looked at ref 7, which is titled "What happened to speech recognition?" but the source title is "Dictate text using Speech Recognition". While there may be an issue with references having titles changed, as this doesn't have an archive ref, it may make it more difficult in the future to prevent linkrot. Could you have a look at that and the issue in general? Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

And some refs seem to have Microsoft as "author" while others as "publisher". I would suggest the latter is more appropriate, but consistency is key here. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 08:33, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

I understand why linkrot would be problematic. I have updated the reference you cited as well as most (if not all, I will have to check again later) of the citations—the majority of which by referring to their archived links. For some future-proofing I even cited the archived link for the changes to WSR in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. (Ian Wolfman (talk) 20:50, 15 May 2020 (UTC))

For author versus publisher, I have since made the use consistent by referring only to publishers. Please let me know of other changes that are necessary. Thank you for your assistance and for your time. (Ian Wolfman (talk) 20:50, 15 May 2020 (UTC))

Ian happy with this now, so I'm promoting to GA, well done. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 09:59, 16 May 2020 (UTC)