User talk:Amigadave
Why did you delete "N900 Bluetooth DUN Client" — Preceding unsigned comment added by matan 16:58, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- There were several reasons:
- The information was too complicated compared to the existing Bluetooth DUN page
- The instructions suggested that a user should download binaries (that would be difficult to verify) from an external server
- The page was orphaned and so could not be easily found from within the wiki
- I am happy to add a redirect, if the URL is found on an external page where the URL cannot be changed. — amigadave 19:03, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
- The operation is complicated.
- So?
- Is that a reason to delete? — Preceding unsigned comment added by matan 20:05, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- The current Bluetooth DUN page is simple compared to the complex instructions that were on N900 Bluetooth DUN Client. The deleted page was simply adding noise
- The source code of packages in Extras can be downloaded to verify that the package is not malware or worse. A tarball containing only binaries cannot be easily verified in this way, not to mention the licensing problems of distributing binaries built from Linux kernel source code without an accompanying license or offer of source code
- If the page was not linked from anywhere within the wiki, then it must have been quite difficult to find for potential users
- These reasons, taken together, provide good justification for deleting the page. — amigadave 09:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
The instructions on the page "Bluetooth DUN" are for BT DUN SERVER on N900. They have absolutely nothing to do with the page you deleted, which is about BT DUN CLIENT on N900.
The page http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian also suggests "that a user should download binaries (that would be difficult to verify) from an external server". And there are many other such pages.
The page was linked from t.m.o. Is the wiki some kind of standalone?
Please undelete the page.