Hello! I'll have a look at this one, it's been sitting here for a while... Review will follow over the weekend or, if not, early next week. Take care, Moswentotalky13:26, 27 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Moswento! The folks at GAN had commented that they support GAs on smaller articles, so long as it covers "the major aspects", which is great because I like to use GAs to get a second pair of eyes on my COI works. Should be an easy review given how small it is. I notice there are some copyediting issues and other problems. I'll do some fixing right now.
CorporateM (
Talk)
13:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Overall, this is a great article, and one of the smoothest reviews I've ever done. The prose is very clean, the sources are reliable and used suitably without close paraphrasing, the article is neutral, with the Reception section appropriately reflecting the reviews. I just have a few minor questions or queries - once these are addressed, I would be delighted to promote this to GA. Take care, Moswentotalky12:49, 3 October 2013 (UTC)reply
There are 5 co-founders listed in the infobox. Why only 3 here?
Done
"a project for Target" - this is an optional change, but it might be clearer for non-US readers to specify "a project for the retailer Target" (or similar wording indicating who Target are)
Done
Business
"100 petabytes" - worth wikilinking
petabytes? Will still be unfamiliar to a lot of readers
Done
"It had 4,500 business users" - I couldn't see this in the footnoted source? Either way, the source is from 2011 so if it is there, this needs to be clarified.
I can't find it in that source either. A lot of the sources got mixed up in a sloppy article-merge from a now-banned user. I'll dig up the source again.
CorporateM (
Talk)
13:27, 3 October 2013 (UTC)reply
I've been checking all the sources and did a search in Google News Archives, but couldn't find anything to support it. Not sure where it came from, so I went ahead and took it out.
Crash Plan
The only significant thing that's missing here is the mobile device support. You mention the acquisition of Recursive further up, so I would expect a few words here about what this support entails.
"The free consumer version does not allow users to recognize mapped drives on Windows" - I honestly do not know what this means, or why it would be an advantage to be able to do this! Is there a way of explaining this more clearly?
I re-wrote it slightly and wiki-linked to
Drive mapping, as it would be a lot to explain here. Apparently, it's when a remote drive on the network is setup to act as if it was a local drive on the PC.
CorporateM (
Talk)
13:35, 3 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"an unofficial workaround." - in what sense is this an "unofficial" workaround, if it's provided by the Crash Plan support website?
Done
Sources
Footnote 18 is missing a publisher. Strictly speaking not essential for GA, but would be nice :)
Hello! I'll have a look at this one, it's been sitting here for a while... Review will follow over the weekend or, if not, early next week. Take care, Moswentotalky13:26, 27 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Moswento! The folks at GAN had commented that they support GAs on smaller articles, so long as it covers "the major aspects", which is great because I like to use GAs to get a second pair of eyes on my COI works. Should be an easy review given how small it is. I notice there are some copyediting issues and other problems. I'll do some fixing right now.
CorporateM (
Talk)
13:53, 2 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Overall, this is a great article, and one of the smoothest reviews I've ever done. The prose is very clean, the sources are reliable and used suitably without close paraphrasing, the article is neutral, with the Reception section appropriately reflecting the reviews. I just have a few minor questions or queries - once these are addressed, I would be delighted to promote this to GA. Take care, Moswentotalky12:49, 3 October 2013 (UTC)reply
There are 5 co-founders listed in the infobox. Why only 3 here?
Done
"a project for Target" - this is an optional change, but it might be clearer for non-US readers to specify "a project for the retailer Target" (or similar wording indicating who Target are)
Done
Business
"100 petabytes" - worth wikilinking
petabytes? Will still be unfamiliar to a lot of readers
Done
"It had 4,500 business users" - I couldn't see this in the footnoted source? Either way, the source is from 2011 so if it is there, this needs to be clarified.
I can't find it in that source either. A lot of the sources got mixed up in a sloppy article-merge from a now-banned user. I'll dig up the source again.
CorporateM (
Talk)
13:27, 3 October 2013 (UTC)reply
I've been checking all the sources and did a search in Google News Archives, but couldn't find anything to support it. Not sure where it came from, so I went ahead and took it out.
Crash Plan
The only significant thing that's missing here is the mobile device support. You mention the acquisition of Recursive further up, so I would expect a few words here about what this support entails.
"The free consumer version does not allow users to recognize mapped drives on Windows" - I honestly do not know what this means, or why it would be an advantage to be able to do this! Is there a way of explaining this more clearly?
I re-wrote it slightly and wiki-linked to
Drive mapping, as it would be a lot to explain here. Apparently, it's when a remote drive on the network is setup to act as if it was a local drive on the PC.
CorporateM (
Talk)
13:35, 3 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"an unofficial workaround." - in what sense is this an "unofficial" workaround, if it's provided by the Crash Plan support website?
Done
Sources
Footnote 18 is missing a publisher. Strictly speaking not essential for GA, but would be nice :)