Talk:Python (programming language)/Archive 9: Difference between revisions

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: There's also the problem that it's now the start of term for Indian colleges and already we've seen a lot of trivial vandalism, and some well-intentioned but inappropriate changes. As a result, the article is likely to be locked from editing by new editors altogether.

: It is difficult to use WP articles for three things simultaneously, although colleges keep trying! The article ''should'' be here as an encyclopedia article. It's not Wikipedia's role to be a classroom exercise in how to write articles though, obvious though that is as a thing to do in colleges. So it's good to get students engaged with article writing, but it must never be at the cost of the encyclopedia quality of those articles. Students also want to write a whole new article from scratch, and that's hard, as so many topics have been started now and what they need is expansion and improvement, not initial creation. It's much harder to ''teach'' article writing, when it's work on an existing article than when it's all new. The third goal that colleges keep wanting to do is to write "how to" tutorial articles. These just don't belong ''here''. There are places they do belong, even within Wikimedia projects, but not on the encyclopedia. [[User:Andy Dingley|Andy Dingley]] ([[User talk:Andy Dingley|talk]]) 09:21, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

== Semi-protected edit request on 17 September 2018 ==

{{edit semi-protected|Python (programming language)|answered=yes}}

Delete "(see Wikipedia's "Python IDE" article), " since there is not such article (any more?) and the link target is the same as the "see also" a few lines above. [[Special:Contributions/2001:638:A0A:1192:1CFE:845C:B132:107F|2001:638:A0A:1192:1CFE:845C:B132:107F]] ([[User talk:2001:638:A0A:1192:1CFE:845C:B132:107F|talk]]) 10:59, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

:[[File:Yes check.svg|20px|link=|alt=]] '''Done'''<!-- Template:ESp --> <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">[[User:L293D|<b style="color:#060">L293D</b>]]&nbsp;([[User talk:L293D#top|<b style="color:#000">☎</b>]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/L293D|<b style="color:#000">✎</b>]])</span> 11:45, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

== Reads like a fan page ==

I came to this page to read about Python, but first I had to sit through how awesome the creator is, how long he worked as a leader and innovator, see a picture of him drinking beer... <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/73.221.162.176|73.221.162.176]] ([[User talk:73.221.162.176#top|talk]]) 15:05, 16 October 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:Agreed. I cut the "History" section substantially and substituted a different photo of van Rossum from [[Commons:Category:Guido van Rossum]]. Because there are separates article on the [[history of Python]] and [[Guido van Rossum]], I hope we won't get too many complaints about these changes.

:In the future, please feel free to make these kinds of changes yourself. The Wikimedia culture encourages us to [[Wikipedia:Be bold#Be careful|be bold but not reckless]], writing from a [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]], [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|citing credible sources]].

:In particular, if you still think that this reads like a fan page, feel free to make other edits -- but don't be surprised or offended if others have have different ideas. There's a fine art to communicating more by saying less. [[User:DavidMCEddy|DavidMCEddy]] ([[User talk:DavidMCEddy|talk]]) 16:33, 16 October 2018 (UTC)