Talk:DOS
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It seems to me that this article is not an adequate replacement for a similar article from Wikipedia. And the mass replacement of external links with internal ones that happened today even seems a little harmful. Right now, this article doesn't say anything about DOS as an operating system. It would be great if someone knowledgeable in the subject added at least a paragraph of text with minimal information about the operating system itself. It may be worth transferring some of the information from Wikipedia, with the obligatory indication of the source, as usual. --Nockson (talk) 15:40, 16 September 2024 (CDT)
- The article is not meant to be a replacement for the Wikipedia one. That's why it links to the Wikipedia one right in the lede. Like every other general topics on the Doom Wiki, the scope of coverage is limited to the Doom series, the Doom engine, and other tangential topics; the rest is for other wikis. Due to this, there really isn't all that much about DOS as an operating system that would make sense to add there. --Gez (talk) 17:54, 16 September 2024 (CDT)
- I disagree. The point of every wikilink is to get some info about unknown term that a reader can find in the article. When the person clicks on the DOS wikilink they (IMO of course) do it to read what the DOS is. In this way this particular page fails completely, it basically requires the person to do yet another click to reach WP article that does have that info. And yes, we don't need to copy the entire WP article here, but 2-3 sentences with basic definition and little details will be enough. Good example is Duke Nukem 3D article - it has all the needed info about the subject in addition to Doom-related things. That's what I want to see here. My main problem is (as I've written above) that anonymous user(s) changed a lot of DOS links from WP to this page. But this page is not an adequate replacement! I'll wait for other members to comment, but my view is that either this page gets more information, or I'll have to partially revert some of these edits by returning the Wikipedia links. --Nockson (talk) 12:10, 17 September 2024 (CDT)
- I see Nockson's point, and it also applies to the Linux article. A better comparison are the Mac OS X/macOS links which also briefly mention those OSes in context of the Mac platform, while mainly covering games/ports on that platform. I agree a similar brief introduction is useful on the DOS & Linux pages. The many wikilinks to them (which I've also contributed to) on tools and ports pages reference them in the context of the OSes as such, more than the pertaining ports. --Xymph (talk) 15:23, 17 September 2024 (CDT)
- Should a Microsoft Windows article be made? now that we have DOS, Linux, and Macintosh articles. 149.202.79.129 23:39, 3 November 2024 (CST)
- I see Nockson's point, and it also applies to the Linux article. A better comparison are the Mac OS X/macOS links which also briefly mention those OSes in context of the Mac platform, while mainly covering games/ports on that platform. I agree a similar brief introduction is useful on the DOS & Linux pages. The many wikilinks to them (which I've also contributed to) on tools and ports pages reference them in the context of the OSes as such, more than the pertaining ports. --Xymph (talk) 15:23, 17 September 2024 (CDT)
- I disagree. The point of every wikilink is to get some info about unknown term that a reader can find in the article. When the person clicks on the DOS wikilink they (IMO of course) do it to read what the DOS is. In this way this particular page fails completely, it basically requires the person to do yet another click to reach WP article that does have that info. And yes, we don't need to copy the entire WP article here, but 2-3 sentences with basic definition and little details will be enough. Good example is Duke Nukem 3D article - it has all the needed info about the subject in addition to Doom-related things. That's what I want to see here. My main problem is (as I've written above) that anonymous user(s) changed a lot of DOS links from WP to this page. But this page is not an adequate replacement! I'll wait for other members to comment, but my view is that either this page gets more information, or I'll have to partially revert some of these edits by returning the Wikipedia links. --Nockson (talk) 12:10, 17 September 2024 (CDT)
