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Segmented file transfer

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This page has no references at all and all sources I could find online are basically a laughing stock. There is no such thing as "non-segmented" file transfer because data stream segmentation is necessary for processing any file of reasonable size. In practice, this means that software must support "segmented" mode and "non-segmented" transfer is just a transfer with only one segment. Anton.bersh (talk) 08:17, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Anton.bersh (talk) 08:17, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Follow-up: It might be worthwhile to redirect Segmented file transfer to somewhere in FTP or HTTP.

I see material online which is called "Segmented file transfer" but it is just low-effort blog spam.

https://ijcset.net/docs/Volumes/volume6issue12/ijcset2016061201.pdf (I'm sorry for whoever had to write basically a generic blog post and format it as a research article)
https://aatayyab.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/multi-threaded-vs-segmented-file-transfer-ftp/

Anton.bersh (talk) 08:26, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draftify or soft delete: (with recommendation for use of alternative title if seeking to return a suitably and properly cited version to mainspace) While in the context of the primary article name of Segmented file transfer I might agree with the nom. but if looking at article in the context of the alternative names multisource file-transfer or swarming file-transfer then that may be more appropriate. Is the nom. a "laughing stock" for not showing the alternative names have been considered in their BEFORE? At brief glance the subject appears to be more focusing on parallelization/distributed techniques beyond those of the transport layer. Lack of references in the article is the big issue and indeed it is more of, or in fact perhaps totally, an opinion essay which will be difficult to cite as written. I'm not considering a Transwiki but if another does a credible and viable volunteer on that I'd probably not oppose it. Possibly notable if renamed and may re-purposed slightly, stubifying might help to avoid issues. Not sure I would work on this one, possibly/probably not.Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:10, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Djm-leighpark: To sum up, this article needs to be renamed to have a specific focus, then all irrelevant content needs to be removed and all unsourced content sourced and what is not sourceable, POV or factually incorrect needs to be removed. Since there is literally zero sources, this rewrite is basically WP:TNT with extra steps.

Since this article is mostly sourced from images amd facts pulled from other pages, I propose an easy way out via deletion of the article and creation of a new article under appropriate names. Anton.bersh (talk) 07:19, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rename (at least). I think this article wants to be about download parallelization, not file segmentation. It is worrisome that we got to 7,314 bytes without a single reference. BernardoSulzbach (talk) 20:04, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BernardoSulzbach: what would be the desired name for the article? Anton.bersh (talk) 06:51, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]