Wikipedia:Peer review/History of the Internet/archive3
History of the Internet[edit]
This article has been incrementaly improved since it was re-written last december. It currently has Good Article status, but has so far not yet passed featured article review. --Barberio 19:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Some comments:
- You have quite a lot of terms which are acronyms, but a lot of the time you don't clarify what the acronyms are so the reader has to click on the wikilink to find out. Have a look at WP:MOS#Acronyms and abbreviations for what the general style for this is. A lot of the time you do this, but some still left over, for example: DARPA, ICANN, CTSS, SDC, a whole bunch more.
- The quote by Robert W. Taylor should probably be in the
{{quote}}template. see below - Perhaps DNS deserves more mention in the article. Right now there is a singular mention of DNS and it's not even wikilinked.
- (Correct me here if I got my terms crossed) I am slightly confused about the Recent trends section. It seems its more about WWW than the Internet itself. And as long as you're mentioning things like Peer-to-peer, Flickr and Wikipedia, you should really be also mentioning - online shopping, security, child pornography, censorship, etc.--Konstable 11:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Side issue: Please note that the {{quote}} template, until a few minutes ago (when I did an AWB-assisted mass update), has been used to link to Wikiquote, not, as Konstable seems to think, to format quoted text. Since this is a common misunderstanding, and since this template's original purpose has been supplanted by {{wikiquote}}, I have cleared the way for this other use by fixing all the old articles. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Ah indeed, that's not what I meant then. Well there are some templates used for quoting, and I think this quote could use one, as it is it seems to blend in with the text and just look a bit weird. Ah here they are Category:Quotation templates. --Konstable 11:45, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Side issue: Please note that the {{quote}} template, until a few minutes ago (when I did an AWB-assisted mass update), has been used to link to Wikiquote, not, as Konstable seems to think, to format quoted text. Since this is a common misunderstanding, and since this template's original purpose has been supplanted by {{wikiquote}}, I have cleared the way for this other use by fixing all the old articles. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- The article is still alphabet soup to my eyes and not yet ready for an elevation in status. I started reading it and as soon as I reached an unexplained acronym (ARPA), and this was even in a section heading, I began to switch off. Even allowing for this, many other terms are stated without any concession to non-technical readers eg packet switching. Why did it need packet switching to work? What is a logical network? Each section needs a simple introductory sentence such as: "The first networks that were accessible to the public were created in 1978 using technology known as X.25". JMcC 09:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)