User talk:Erik Zenner

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Erik Zenner, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — ciphergoth 10:11, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I hope to find the time to contribute once in a while. However, I was greeted to Wikipedia by someone proposing my first article for deletion (giving WP:BIO as a reason even though the article was not concerned with living persons). It can only get better; I'll try to learn the rules as I go along... (Erik Zenner 11:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Only an anonymous user though; I wouldn't pay it much heed. If a user with an account wants to list it for deletion, they should be referencing WP:CORP not WP:BIO. — ciphergoth 11:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

eSTREAM[edit]

Could you have a look at my proposal in Talk:ESTREAM and see if it makes sense to you? Thanks! — ciphergoth 08:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll do so as soon as I'm back to work (I'm currently on Easter holidays). Erik Zenner 18:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rabbit and Cryptico[edit]

Hi Erik. I just noticed your edits and comments on the Rabbit (cipher). That lead me to discover you are the one that created and mostly edited Cryptico. And as far as I understand you are or have been employed by Cryptico. It goes against Wikipedia policy to make and edit articles about one self or the company one works for. However, I think Cryptico perhaps is notable enough to have an article so I won't request it deleted. Instead I will just edit away the parts that can be considered "sales speach".

Personally I see nothing wrong in that you fix errors in the Rabbit article and even add stuff about Rabbit that we usually do add about ciphers. Especially since Rabbit did go to the second phase of the eSTREAM project thus making it notable enough. But beware that you are treading on the edge of the Wikipedia policys.

Anyway, nice to have an expert "on board". And while I am at it: Feel free to join our Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography.

--David Göthberg 14:42, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is it against Wikipedia policy to write articles about the company you work for? I've certainly done that, and it's not mentioned in WP:CORP or WP:AUTO. The big problem is writing about one's company in a promotional or otherwise non-neutral way. Cryptico didn't look too bad in that respect. So I'd encourage Dr Zenner to edit away while, of course, trying to avoid any hint of vested interest. — Matt Crypto 15:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Matt. I definitely try to avoid begin one-sided in my Wiki contributions. I trust that if I ever was, someone would correct me rather quickly, anyway. Erik Zenner 10:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]