Talk:XPS Annotator

Notability

XPS Annotator not fails to comply with Wikipedia notability guideline, here are few records:

• CNET Download.com, Tucows and Softpedia listed this software. Search Google for more.
• Entered the ranks at CNET Most Popular Document Management Software (this week get rank 24 of 50 / the second week of January 2010). Could exceed the ranking of Sumatra PDF Viewer.
• Age of XPS Annotator was barely a year but already has many fanatical users. In this site, XPS Annotator can beat the popularity of Foxit Reader, OpenOffice.

Wq-man (talk) 06:53, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

You have written:

CNET Download.com, Tucows and Softpedia listed this software.

Everyone can list his tool in those sites. To become notable, the listed download must receive critical reviews from an editor. XPS Annotator hasn't received any.

You have also written:

Entered the ranks at Most Popular Document Management Software (this week get rank 24 of 50 / the second week of January 2010). Could exceed the ranking of Sumatra PDF Viewer.

Notablitity requires more than just a lot of downloads count in a given website. Notablity requires reception of significant coverage in reliable third-party source sources. The article lacks citations from reliable third-party sources beside those sites that quote the author.

You have also written:

Age of XPS Annotator was barely a year but already has many fanatical users. In this site, XPS Annotator can beat the popularity of Foxit Reader, OpenOffice.

Well, Wikipedia is not a fansite. Give us significant coverage in reliable sources not fans.

Fleet Command (talk) 07:17, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Okay, now I've understood the weaknesses of the article, thanks and I will try to fix it any way I can.

But it is very difficult for free software makers to get a review from the editor of a website such as Download.com, the editors would prefer to make a review of commercial or shareware products, where they can earn money if a lot of downloading.

Wq-man (talk) 09:53, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes. You are right. It is difficult to become notable. Both for commercial and free products. I, too, had a hard time accepting that. But don't worry: I believe notability issue will be resolved soon, now that the problem is acknowleged. I think this product is notable. You'll find coverage soon. Besides, if your favorite article didn't end up in Wikipedia, it's not the end of the world. Fleet Command (talk) 17:18, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Ya it's not the end of the world :)

Wq-man (talk) 22:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

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Please help improve this article. Wq-man (talk) 02:25, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Issues solved. Wq-man (talk) 00:10, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Flag article for deletion

Having just downloaded a copy of XPS Annotator it does NOT does not appear to do what it says on the box, namely it has no ability to add notes. There is nothing on the website providing any information on the product: Forum and Documentation sections of the website only contain a handful of press releases.

I have emailed the addresses given in the ReadMe file, and look forward to an explanation.

In the absence of anything other than download information, and as the software does not appear to do more than the inbuilt XPS viewer in Windows (Win 7) and far less than facilities in Win XP (which did allow editing of XPS files) I also recommend deletion, for these reasons as well as the lack of Notability criteria already detailed, unless anyone can show me what I am missing here. LookingGlass (talk) 18:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

And the CNET editor will NOT gives the XPS Annotator rating with four and a half stars and recommend to anyone who handles XPS documents if the software can not add the annotations to the XPS documents as advertised. So you recommend deletion because you can't understand on how to use the software properly?

How to add text annotations? simply block some text or paragraph and right clicking it, there is an options there. I will roll back the flag Wq-man (talk) 18:54, 18 August 2011 (UTC)