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January 7

Recovering my deleted internet history

I was trying to find a website that I have recently visited, but I've deleted my internet browsing history. Is there any way of finding it again? I'm using internet explorer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.30.183.156 (talk) 22:51, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

You can try something like https://www.foxtonforensics.com/browser-history-viewer/ but such tools usually work best if you don't continue using your computer -- various applications see the space freed up by your browser history delete and put stuff there, overwriting what you hope to recover. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:06, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Closure

• The above was closed by Legacypac (talk) citing WP:NOTHOWTO. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 10:28, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

In my opinion, the closing of the above is not based upon policy. Look at the language of WP:SOAPBOX: It defines the scope as "This applies to usernames, articles, categories, files, talk page discussions, templates, and user pages." or more generally "content hosted in Wikipedia" So it applies everywhere. Compare WP:NOTFORUM, which says "You can chat with people about Wikipedia-related topics on their user talk pages... but please do not take discussion into articles." and "article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion about the subject of the article, nor are they a help desk for obtaining instructions or technical assistance." Different scopes for different rules.

So what is the scope of WP:NOTHOWTO? "Wikipedia articles should not read like..." That policy does not say that you cannot ask or answer practical questions on your own talk page or on the reference desks. In fact, most of the content of the helpdesk would be forbidden if NOTHOWTO applied to all pages. --Guy Macon (talk) 09:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

• I agree. It clearly does not apply here and I'm reverting the closure. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 10:28, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Exactly most of the content on the ref desks violats WP:NOTHOWTO and WP:NOTFORUM. How is this question remotely fitting ""You can chat with people about Wikipedia-related topics" Legacypac (talk) 12:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Most of the content on the reference desks WOULD violate WP:NOTHOWTO if only that policy applied to the reference desks. But it doesn't. It applies to articles. WP:NOTFORUM has nothing to do with the comment above; I just used it as an example of a "what Wikipedia is not" section that specifically states that it does not apply to user talk pages (if it did, most of what is on Jimbo's talk page -- including most comments by Jimbo himself -- would be a violation).

Policies have scope. The scope of WP:COPYVIO is "every page". The scope of WP:V is "articles". The scope of WP:BLP is "material on any page pertaining to living or recently deceased people". Please read WP:NOTHOWTO and note the scope. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:17, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

MongoDB: PA/EC or PC/EC?

See [1]. --Guy Macon (talk) 17:25, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Who uses this particular taxonomy, and how do they classify it? Our article cites this slide deck, but I've never even heard of its author or his affiliation. He cites this IEEE Xplore article, which doesn't even mention MongoDB.

Absent any attribution to a reliable source, I would simply strike the line from the table. We shouldn't be independently trying to apply every software-categorization scheme ever invented to every software-package ever invented.

Nimur (talk) 19:32, 7 January 2019 (UTC)