Talk:Cloud computing/Archive 1: Difference between revisions

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::::Definitely several of the lists should stay. But in many other places the lists should either be made into prose or perhaps even broken off into separate articles. Actually that would also be a thing that we could discuss. Is this article too big for just one article? ----[[User:Nogburt|Nogburt]] ([[User talk:Nogburt|talk]]) 16:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

:::::At 34k, not quite yet but it's something we'll likely have to look at before too long. -- <u style="text-decoration:none; font-family: papyrus;">[[User:SamJohnston|samj]] <small>_{<font color="maroon">[[User talk:Samj|in]]</font>}^{<font color="green">[[Special:Contributions/SamJohnston|out]]</font>}</small></u> 01:06, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

== Cloud image ==

I just came across this article due to my [[Twitter]] search stream for "Wikipedia" picking up a tweet making fun of it [http://twitter.com/ewencp/status/1127832937]. I'm usually a big fan of any kind of graphics in articles, but I have to admit that [[:File:TheCloud.svg]] doesn't seem to really add anything to the article, and may in fact may detract a bit. In case I'm missing something here, I wanted some input from the article's regular editors rather than removing it unilaterally. Cheers! &mdash;[[User:Elipongo|Elipongo]] <small>([[User talk:Elipongo|Talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Elipongo|contribs]])</small> 09:49, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

: I replaced the previous image with this one, as I thought it was a bit too technical for the intro section and wasn't even a particularly good diagram to introduce the topic. I'll admit the current image isn't really much more than decorative though. [[User:Letdorf|Letdorf]] ([[User talk:Letdorf|talk]]) 19:22, 18 January 2009 (UTC).

:: This was a placeholder for the replacement that never came, and a bit of a joke in itself. It's already been discussed and removed before, but I'm still not sure of a decent replacement - I tried a few with users hanging off it but none of them looked great. Anyway it's not urgent. -- <u style="text-decoration:none; font-family: papyrus;">[[User:SamJohnston|samj]] <small>_{<font color="maroon">[[User talk:Samj|in]]</font>}^{<font color="green">[[Special:Contributions/SamJohnston|out]]</font>}</small></u> 20:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

:::''Per se'', humour does not make a text, an illustration or any other form of knowledge inapproriate, uneducational, or unencyclopedic; see the [[Name of the Rose]]. The problem with the image then was that it lacked a caption, thus not providing a context and leaving the uninformed reader unenlightened as why it might be humouristic. I've know written such a caption[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cloud_computing&diff=271550348&oldid=271384387], and I'm not certain that it cannot be improved. <font color="green">[[user:victor falk|''¨¨ victor'']]</font> <font color="green">[[user_talk:victor falk|''falk'']]</font> 11:21, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

:::: No, the problem is that it is so dreadfully amateurish and whimsical that it negatively impacts the article. If we're going to use humour at all, I'd consider waiting for something which doesn't require a multi-line caption in explanation. This should be removed again. [[user:thumperward|Chris Cunningham (not at work)]] - [[user talk:thumperward|talk]] 12:15, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

::::: As there's been no further comment regarding this, I'm removing the image again. Images are not mandatory, and this one is whimsical at best and idiotic at worst. We don't need a placeholder. [[user:thumperward|Chris Cunningham (not at work)]] - [[user talk:thumperward|talk]] 11:01, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

:::::: Agreed, good call. -- <u style="text-decoration:none; font-family: papyrus;">[[User:SamJohnston|samj]] <small>_{<font color="maroon">[[User talk:Samj|in]]</font>}^{<font color="green">[[Special:Contributions/SamJohnston|out]]</font>}</small></u> 14:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Resolved by creation of [[:File:Cloud computing.svg]] -- <u style="text-decoration:none; font-family: papyrus;">[[User:SamJohnston|samj]] <small>_{<font color="maroon">[[User talk:Samj|in]]</font>}^{<font color="green">[[Special:Contributions/SamJohnston|out]]</font>}</small></u> 09:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC)