Talk:Black Lab Linux

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Notable

As is, the page is not notable. It may be notable if someone could provide the story about how Yellow Dog Linux and Terra Soft Solutions evolved out of Black Lab Linux, especially if there was controversy involved, Cuvtixo 20:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recent revert

This edit needlessly reignites the GNU/Linux naming controversy, and removes the stub tag. It should be reverted. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit Request

Black Lab Linux is now owned, distributed and developed by PC/OpenSystems LLC. Being as though we are now the copyright owners of Black Lab Linux we would like for ldavidson121975 edit to be reverted back and that be used. We contacted Mr. Axl Matulic today regarding this and he said that whoever told me to start a new article was mistaken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertojdohnert (talk • contribs) 00:04, March 19, 2014‎

Please sign your talk page edits with 4 tildes.

I undid the edits, as can easily be seen from the edit history. I don't know who Axl Matulic is or why you would think he would be able to make such a decision without discussing the issue with the editor who raised the issue. You didn't raise the issue on the talk page as I suggested, or on my talk page, and neither did whichever editor Axl Matulic is.

As I said on the first editor's talk page here "The problem is that you are trying to rewrite the article to cover a different subject. Black Lab Linux is about the specific 1999 distribution, not any other distribution that happens to have the same name." After a username change the edit was reinserted and I replied here "Just because your company has now made a distribution with the same name is no reason to shoehorn your information into the original article. Create a new article if the new distrubution is notable, and create a disambiguation page if necessary." I then suggested that you take it up on the talk page if you disagreed, but you did not. I see that you did ask a question on the second user's talk page here about how to link your new article to the original. Sorry I missed it, but it was 25 days after I left my message and I don't monitor other people's talk pages for replies to my posts for that long.

Why don't I think this material belongs? The first editor said "My company last year acquired the rights to the name Black Lab Linux which was used back in 1999 for a PowerPC based Linux distro." The desired changes to the article include "Black Lab Linux in its current incarnation does not have any relationship with Terrasoft Solutions release of Black Lab Linux." So, it still sounds to me as if your Black Lab Linux has nothing to do with the topic of the original article, other than happening to share the same distribution name. I could be wrong. If so, please explain it to me, as I've already suggested. Until you do, this is content dispute, not a question of a conflict of interest edit. I appreciate that you are following Wikipedia's procedures by changing your original commercial username to a personal one, and by asking for a conflict of interst edit (and I don't object to the edit on COI grounds).

I still think that the best solution is a separate article for you distribution with a disambiguation. If the other Black Lab Linux is no longer active/supported I would support renaming the old distribution's article and giving your distribution the Black Lab Linux article title (with a link to the old article's new title). Perhaps the original article could even be deleted. If your new article is not accepted I don't see a problem clarifying the original article to distinguish between the article topic and your Black Lab Linux, but not with the amount of detail you are trying to have added about your distribution. If the article isn't about your distribution, there's no need to specify the four distinct variants of your distribution, for example. Meters (talk) 01:49, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Er... I am the "Axl Matulic" he has been communicating with, on OTRS.

I made no decision, I simply expressed my opinion that you were mistaken. The thrust of my advice was to engage you on the talk page to come to an agreement, and I am gratified to see that is happening, but did not expect to see my name bandied about as an authoritative decision-maker.

Involving myself in discussion here puts me in a difficult position because OTRS typically does not resolve content disputes. Nevertheless, now that I've been pulled in....

It seems inappropriate to fork off another article about essentially the same subject, since the product, intellectual property, etc. has now changed ownership. That would be an unnecessary WP:FORK and likely merged back into this article. The history of ownership should be an integral part of this article, should it not? I suggest a modification of the article that retains a description of the original product with a mention that ownership has been transferred. I fail to see how doing so will reduce the quality of the article rather than improve it. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

so if I make this change, will it be allowed to take affect rather than being reverted back?

Ldavidson121975 (talk) 21:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New Article

The new article was refused because of an article with a like name. This one. Several editors have said to update this article and not start a new one. So my question is this and I will let Roberto know. What information is needed to get this article edited and updated to include the current incarnation of Black Lab Linux. Terrasoft Solutions does not exist anymore so the PowerPC release is no longer developed or distributed. Ldavidson121975 (talk) 06:51, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is no problem with articles having similar names. The reason given was "recently created article that duplicates an existing topic, Black Lab Linux)" not because it had a similar name. I can't tell why this reason was used without seeing the now deleted article, but if you just copied the original article over with your additions rather than creating an article about your release it would explain it. If that's wasn't the problem I suggest you contact the users who reviewed and deleted the proposed new article. It may have been a mistake. Meters (talk) 17:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nope it was a brand new article with none of the original material from this article and the reason given BY the editor was because this article existed. Ldavidson121975 (talk) 21:33, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]