Re: wikipedia: jack may not meet notability

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hollunder wrote:
> Excerpts from Nick Dokos's message of 2010-02-17 02:13:41 +0100:
>> Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:19 PM, james morris <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit
>>> Just noticed that recently, myself.
>>>
>>> My guess is JACK probably *does* meet their notability standards, but
>>> the article would need to contain references to outside web sites
>>> mentioning JACK.  Perhaps something like the open source award given
>>> to Paul a few years back...
>>>
>>>   http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5136755.html
>>> -- 
>>>  joq
>> I added a note (and the ref to the TechRepublic article) to the Wikipedia
>> page. Thanks for pointing it out!
>>
>> Nick
>>
> 
> The list of software that works with jack is really short and quite
> random.
> 
> The mention of aRts seems to be a bit off to me, I see no real relation.
> 
> The text in general could be improved, especially the part about the
> rename of jackdmp to jack2 doesn't look very English to me...
> 
> The stable release version there is the one of jack2. Afaik jack1 and
> jack2 are quite different and jack2 doesn't really replace jack1.
> Also jack2 is written in C++, so the note there is wrong.

Well, jack2 replaced jack1 here and a pile of difficulties disappeared. ;-)

> I'm sure there's lots of stuff that could be added, the notability
> thing really is a joke..

Notability by the lights of someone who doesn't do Linux audio at all: 
"JACK? What's that? Never heard of it, can't possibly be notable." ;-)

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