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Write a Wikipedia article #55

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ReinerBforartists opened this issue Mar 10, 2018 · 9 comments
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Write a Wikipedia article #55

ReinerBforartists opened this issue Mar 10, 2018 · 9 comments
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Blender has a Wikipedia entry. Bforartists so far not. Maybe time to change that ...

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Davis-BfA commented Mar 22, 2018

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ReinerBforartists commented Mar 22, 2018

Thanks for the links. Do you want to write the articles there? :)

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ReinerBforartists commented Mar 22, 2018

Okay, then we need to wait a bit more for the full article.

Looking great. Thanks for the entries :)

Licensing, GPL2 is wrong in the first link. It is the same than Blender. Gpl2+ and Apache. So you could simply copy it :)

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Thanks for checking. I fixed the license in this entry

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Davis-BfA commented Mar 22, 2018

It seems we need an article to stay on the list. It got removed with the note "(removed program without article, deemed not notable)"

So I added a request for an article. It is recommended by wikipedia anyway to have the article written by someone else to avoid any bias or advertising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Applied_arts_and_sciences#Technology_and_tools

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Too bad. So we made the second step after the first one.

The biased thing is what made me stay away from writing the article by myself ^^

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I have just for fun written an article at the german wiki. Immediately flagged as a delete candidate ...
Was worth a try ^^

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ReinerBforartists commented Aug 15, 2018

Closing this one. Wikipedia is not relevant for us. Maybe somebody writes an article about Bforartists at a later point. But this is not in our hands. I just discovered that it is forbidden to write an article about your own product anyways. Conflicts of interests and such ...

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