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Adding "Microsoft" to "OneDrive"[edit]

Hello, FleetCommand

I see that you are editing right now. I am seeing you and 95.185.131.169 are engaged in a series of forth and back reversions that entail prefixing "Microsoft" to "OneDrive" in the article. Could you please justify yourself?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 12:28, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did it again, huh? Sorry.

I reverted it because it is a blatantly low-quality edit. All that the edit does is replacing one instance of "OneDrive" with "Microsoft OneDrive", and one instance of "SkyDrive" with "Microsoft SkyDrive". The remainder are not altered. Even there isn't an edit summary that says why it has happened.

You see, at this point, the question of whether the name should be "Microsoft OneDrive" or just "OneDrive" does not come into play yet. The edit doesn't go so far as to lay a claim on it. It is just messy test edit. (That's about highest dignity I can grant it.) But for completeness, I discuss it here: Microsoft sometimes uses this and sometimes the other; there is no consistency. But bearing WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NATURALDAB in mind, "OneDrive" and "SkyDrive" are both okay.

FleetCommand (Speak your mind!) 12:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again

I see your point. I myself have previously reverted exactly because of that; many other people have. Still, reversion without an edit summary is for blatant vandalism only.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 12:57, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re-wrote the embarrassing lead section[edit]

Revision 1060566364 had a lot of sentences in the lead section that were redundant, wrong, or poorly written. Example:

OneDrive allows users to store ... BitLocker recovery keys in the cloud

That's wrong. BitLocker keys go to account.microsoft.com/devices/recoverykey.

sync files across Android, Windows Phone, iOS, Windows, macOS, consoles and every other device that has an internet browser

Blatantly wrong. PlayStation and Nintendo consoles don't support a OneDrive client. And no, not "every other device that has an internet browser" can sync files. Synchronization needs a specialized client. Waysidesc (talk) 07:09, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It would be nice to add a standardized section about country firewalls[edit]

A soft bit of data indicates that this month (12/2021) China is blocking a lot of services including social, VPN, and file share services. If I knew for sure, I would add, but I don't edit much and don't have definitive info on this. I am asking friends for now, hopefully they find some sources.

I would hope that anyone else who frequents and supports this and other file shares wiki might build a standardized section to centrally track and crosslink/update this live data.

Hansschulze (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 21:25, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China is how I actually got to here looking for more info. Hansschulze (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]