Wikipedia:Peer review/List of software patents/archive1
Ages ago, this article was nothing but a "list of patents that geeks don't like" to quote one person who voted it for deletion. Following an extensive editing process, it's now got to the stage where I think it includes a lot of useful info, including links to main articles that report further on a particular patent or the effects that that patent have had. It's also pretty stable as an article.
However, the article still attracts mainly geeks (of which I include myself). I'm hoping that this peer review request will lead to a review by people who aren't patent specialists or who aren't programmers. Hopefully this input will tell us how to further improve the article so it is useful/interesting/understandable by the general public. Thanks in advance. GDallimore (Talk) 15:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- Probably would benefit more from a review by a patent specialist than by ordinary Wikipædians... what do you think? 69.140.155.148 03:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- I am a patent attorney. As, I believe, are User:Nowa and User:Edcolins who are also regular contributors to the article. As a consequence, we can be pretty sure the article is factually correct and non-attorney contributors have never raised any WP:NPOV objections since my major re-write. What I want to know is whether it's useful/interesting/understandable for the average Joe. My personal goal with the article is to make this tricky and often misunderstood/misrepresented area of law more accessible. GDallimore (Talk) 09:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)