Talk:Fravia

While the dispute is being resolved, the WIP article can be found here.

There seems to be demand for an article about this person, and he passes a Google notability test. Also, the fact that so many people have edited the page suggests he's notable. The AfD discussion suggests that the reason people didn't like it was that it was badly written. This can be fixed. Evercat (talk) 15:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Understood that Fravia was a big name in certain online circles, but it's not at all clear at present that he meets Wikipedia:Notability (people); in particular, can we construct a biographical article from reliable sources? — Matt Crypto 16:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes , there is enough information on his web page and on other sites such as woodmann in orde to do that Stefan.petrea (talk) 03:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Moved from main...

IMPORTANT! It is not good to redirect fravia to reverse engineering. he was a master in software reversing (which is *related* to software reverse engineering), and (in the last 10 years), dedicated his efforts to internet information searching.

I was a personal friend of Mr Fravia, and knew him since 1996. definitely i disapprove the choice of redirecting this searches to reverse engineering, which was NOT his field.

Marco Guardigli Technical Director TomWare Group

(this comment was made in the article by Marco Guardigli)

New version

The last article was deleted because of it's fanboyish tone, it's bad style, and it's lack of citations. I don't know much about Fravia personally, so I restored the page to an absolute minimal stub. Please expand it wisely :-) Zorbid (talk) 16:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

DVD Jon's Blog post

I don't want to start an edit war, so:

There are exceptions to the WP:RS rules for self-published sources, and I think that DVD Jon qualifies as an expert in the field. Zorbid (talk) 17:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

seconded - riffic (talk) 18:20, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The guideline is, "Self-published material may, in some circumstances, be acceptable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications. However, caution should be exercised when using such sources: if the information in question is really worth reporting, someone else is likely to have done so." — Matt Crypto 18:23, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

about last reverting by Matt Crypto, and about fast-undo style

Matt, I am trying to rewrite the whole page in a fairly decent style. It takes me time to do that, and I need the help of many friends. For this reason, since i have a job to do and i can not devote a lot of time to this, please give me some time. If you editors do revert some other people work, please consider that sometimes the full article can not be written in a single session.

Thank you for your understanding. Marco —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marco Guardigli (talk • contribs) 20:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Marco, it wasn't Matt, but Enigmaman who erased your contributions. I reverted them. That said, the article you are writing is more of a praise than an encyclopedic article. I know that Fravia was a personal friend, so it may be hard for you to write about him otherwise, especially since he died recently.

Wikipedia isn't the place to write an eulogy. You need to write the article in a neutral tone. Maybe you could ask the other people who knew him, maybe less closely, to help you in writing it?

Kind regards, Zorbid (talk) 00:15, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

(I did, in fact, undo Marco's contributions once.) You have my every sympathy at the loss of your friend. I'd second Zorbid's advice about the need for a neutral tone, and add another request: reliable sources. Unfortunately, it seems reliable sources about Fravia are very scarce indeed. — Matt Crypto 05:54, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the best chance we have to find "reliable sources" about him (in Wikipedia's meaning of the phrase) would be to wait for an eulogy in a recognised publication. Zorbid (talk) 08:22, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

NO: I do not understand

Zorbid, Matt, Enigmaman: I will go on and find the sources you demand. There are indeed many. In the meantime, could you please let me work on the page? I understand that you have to do your moderating, but consider that it takes time for me to collect the proper informations. Furthermore, if you go on in undoing my edits, friends who could contribute and improve what I wrote are impeded to do so.

If this sounds not good for you, please explain me clearly why are there in wikipedia many so completely and insignificant pages which do have the right to exist, and why Fravia's page can not even be reverted in the form that it had for years, while being below your radar attention level?.

thank you Marco Guardigli

Marco, I'm sorry about the locking of the page. Actually, it's not that I or we want you to find sources. Wikipedia has very strict rules about biographies, to prevent vanity pages and other abuse. The fact that the article stayed unnoticed for years in it's previous form doesn't mean it was acceptable by the official standards. That said, I think that some admins are overly strict about these rules, especially for an article that's actively being worked on. It must be very frustrating for you right now. You can work on the article here while the dispute is resolved.

It's indeed kind of absurd that you cannot write a proper article about a grassroots/underground hero, while the most obscure anime characters or porn stars have full fledged articles. Zorbid (talk) 08:13, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

With regard to your last question, see Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFF. I suggest a better way to proceed is to add information piece by piece, citing a reliable source as you go. — Matt Crypto 08:32, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Again

I want you to know I find these rules of you completely against the spirit of knowledge freedom. Yes, I am sad. I am angry. I am feeling very frustrated. I will go to the burial, and wanted to give to his orphans and widow that page as a tribute to a father and man who in many cases enriched and changed the life of many (including mine). Go read the messageboards if you dont believe. You censors do not own information. You censors have not to be overzealot custodes of a single immutable truth.

Give me a decent explanation about which that page I wrote is vanity. Remove my name if you think it is unfair. Maybe I should start hiding like you all behind a silly nick. Still now I can not understand your reasons for which the current stub should be better than what I was editing. You did not give a decent explanation.

Im stopping right now. Otherwise I could really become impolite and offensive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.18.248.71 (talk) 10:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I sypathise with your mourning, but I think that you are currently misguided. I don't think that there is any vanity in your intent. I gave you the reason for the existance of the rules that are barring you from writing the article You'd like. The problem with the article you are writing is that it is based on your personal account of his life. Most of what you've written is highly subjective. I'm sure that you have a lot of knowledge to share about Fravia, but Wikipedia articles have to be factual and have external, recognised sources. Articles cannot be written based on a first hand account. The advices for writing the biography of a living person apply here too. Zorbid (talk) 10:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)