Deletion of Webinos

Comment: Its a little troubling that people have institutionalized a policy of using Wikipedia to |advertise. However, the fact that the two major contributers to this article promptly deleted their accounts after firing a final parting shot is damning
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTADVERTISING)

Comment: This Webinos article should not be seen in isolation.  One or more European consortia have a stated policy of using Wikipedia as a publicity tool, following these http://aksw.org/SoerenAuer/HowToDescribeResearchProjectsOnWikipedia instructions.  The instructions mention the importance of visibility on Wikipedia because of its high traffic, as if Wikipedia were a highway suitable for billboards.  Dozens and perhaps hundreds of such pages already exist, all high in technical content, few with references to anything but marketing resources and derived publicity, and none of interest to anyone but a government funding agency, venture capitalist, competing project, or participant.  Many have already been flagged for Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion|deletion on the ground that they fail several tests in |Notability guidelines and |What Wikipedia is not, particularly the guidelines about advertising.  More are being flagged as they are discovered.  Vigorous debate ensues in each case, with the writers of the articles often reappearing as vociferous opponents of deletion
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:ISNOT)

Comment: Counting all participants in the project as one source of opinion, and taking the |Notability guidelines at their word, the outcome for this page seems clear.  I wish that someone would begin the process of actually deleting this page and its many equivalents, which where flagged have fared much as this page has.  More encompassing pages, like Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, can be extended as needed to describe the underlying research initiatives, whose notability has not been questioned
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: vehemently.  Another EU research project.  Note that there is an http://aksw.org/SoerenAuer/HowToDescribeResearchProjectsOnWikipedia offsite canvasing project encouraging the creation of these articles.  Whatever else can be said about the project, the text of the current article is full of |hyper-optimistic but vague, uneditable claims about the |"Future Internet".  Its style is such that |no reasonable person could be expected to make sense of it:''...webinos will define and deliver an Open Source platform and software components for the Future Internet in the form of web runtime extensions, and complementary infrastructure components, to enable web applications and services to be used and shared consistently and securely over a broad spectrum of converged and connected devices, including mobile, PC, home media (TV) and in-car units. webinos promotes the “single service for every device” vision by providing the necessary technical specification in order to move the existing baseline of web development from installed applications to services, running consistently across a wide range of connected devices.The webinos platform will directly address security and privacy issues as part of Quality of Service that users of web services expect. The addressed challenges comprise: how to provision and adapt security across a range of devices, services, networks as well as how individuals can gain control over the privacy aspects of their web presence regardless of the service that is being used. Context and privacy are intimately intertwined: rich context is valuable but without user controlled privacy it becomes a liability. Context and security are intimately intertwined: rich context is valuable but without user empowered security it becomes a liability. This dual approach is a hallmark of the webinos approach.The objective is the development of a secure application platform that facilitates the creation of applications for multiple heterogeneous devices and operating systems, overcomes restrictions implied by proprietary and vendor-specific technologies, and enables the rapid creation of more personalized, secure, and innovative applications. Under this prim, the consortium has an ongoing affiliate activity running aiming to bring to the project further expertise in the form of use-cases and requirements or through direct participate in the specification process and open source development.''Bullshit|Verbal performances like this are the typed equivalent of a mountebank's handwaving.  Prose like this is intended to impress and distract rather than inform.  With text like this, notability is a non-issue; even if this were a notable project, the article still needs to be deleted and rewritten from the beginning in English
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Spam (WP:SPAM||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:NONSENSE)

Comment: I do suspect EU projects have acquired a bad reputation here, but it's not our fault.  There is, as noted above, an offsite canvassing site with a "how to" on creating Wikipedia articles without regard to whether they are actually encyclopedia subjects or not.  If the resulting articles were written in neutral and communicative English, this would not be a large problem; as a genre, they tend not to be.  So the resulting articles tend to break not only the |notability guideline, but also the foundational |neutrality principle, and there's been a huge streak of them
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NPOV)