Fastflow

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Hi 4th! I saw you edited the Fastflow (computing) article, and wondered if you might be able to give me an opinon as to its value for Wikipedia. The article was created by M. Aldinucci, a computer science professor in Italy, and one of the two authors of the library. He also added information about Fastflow to perhaps 20 -30 other comp. sci. articles on Wikipedia. He obviously has a conflict of interest. I see from sourceforge that it gets something like 100 or more downloads per month, which seems impressive. But on the other hand, it's not "notable" in Wikipedia's sense. Only a single paper has been presented about it, at an IEEE mini-conference last year. So basically, I'm asking whether you have the background to render an opinon about its suitability for Wikipedia. Was its creator just engaging in self-promotional spamming, or does the article's presence here actually benefit the encyclopedia? I'd be grateful for an independent opinion. Other editors urged me to seek to have all of Aldinucci's edits ( every one of which was to promote his work, Fastflow ) reverted and this article deleted when I discovered his COI last year, but I've been reluctant to pursue that, not knowing if the article and the information the author inserted about Fastflow into other pages is beneficial or not. Can you give me some idea as to its value? I'd be grateful. You can reply just below, btw; I'll put this page on my watchlist. Thanks,  – OhioStandard (talk) 11:04, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I'm not an expert in the field. Not a C++ programmer either. So, I cannot evaluate the notabilty. I'm generally an inclusionist here; if the COI author has been properly warned and do not make any spam/COI edits further, the article is okay to stay for me. --4th-otaku (talk) 03:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Okay; thanks anyway. And thanks for correcting my usage of "Fastflow" re disambiguation, too. Best,  – OhioStandard (talk) 06:27, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Lua in Worms Armageddon

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Hi, do you remember why did you add Category:Lua-scripted video games to Worms Armageddon in this edit? I'm not aware of any version which ever used Lua - the PC versions certainly didn't. I've undone your change for now. Thanks. --Vladimir (talk) 17:20, 9 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your correction. It's listed in the ru:Lua article, so I've tried it. I will add a ru-version of {{citation needed}} there. --4th-otaku (talk) 19:17, 9 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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