Wikipedia:Featured article review/C (programming language): Difference between revisions

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Not enough citations. [[User:Ideogram|Ideogram]] 08:18, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

'''[[Wikipedia:Good articlearticles|Good]], but not [[Wikipedia:Featured articlearticles|featured]].''' I believe it could be a [[Wikipedia:Good articles|good article]], but it has to cite more sources to be featured. Also, I'm not entirely comfortable with how the article covers C. '''This is an encyclopedia article on C, not a tutorial.''' The ''"hello world" example'' should not be so long. [[User:70.17.41.123|70.17.41.123]] 17:30, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Comprehensive, and packed with useful information. But it sorely needs inline citations, both for some of the more controversial claims related to influence and usage, and for the history and philosophy sections. --[[User:Allan McInnes|Allan McInnes]] <small>([[User talk:Allan McInnes|talk]])</small> 23:02, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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*'''Remove''' as per Sandy. In addition, the prose needs a lot of work; for such a complicated subject, our readers need utter clarity. Take the second half of the lead.

<fontspan colorstyle="color: green;">"C has also had a great influence on most other popular languages[1], especially C++ which was originally designed as an enhancement to C. It is distinguished for the efficiency of the code it produces, and is the most commonly used programming language for writing system software [2] [3], though it is also widely used for writing applications. Though not originally designed as a language for teaching, and despite its somewhat unforgiving character, C is commonly used in computer science education, in part because the language is so pervasive. Note that C# is a very different programming language.</font colorspan>

**It would be stronger without the "alsos".

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[[User:RN|RN]] 03:51, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

====Miscellaneous commentary====

For what it's worth, this article is a textbook example of a Wikipedia phenomenon which, if it hasn't been named, should be called the "too many cooks spoil the broth syndrome". Many, many editors who know something about C have added (or deleted) their favorite hot-button statements, with the inevitable result being an undisciplined mishmash. Someone needs to (and I've wanted to) mount a concerted cleanup effort, though of course this (a) will take a lot of time and effort and (b) is guaranteed to result in N tedious discussions with various of those hot-button editors who won't be happy with the way the coverage of their issues has been resolved. (But I'm merely observing here, neither apologizing nor complaining, and of course the situation here is little different from any number of other Wikipedia articles, plenty of which have managed to overcome these difficulties.) —[[User:Ummit|Steve Summit]] ([[User talk:Ummit|talk]]) 04:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)