Mishikal

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Advice

For convenience, I repeat here the location of the userfied article: it's at User:ThurnerRupert/Lightning Memory-Mapped Database. Three more points, beyond what I wrote on my talk page:

• Other articles: many of the 4 million articles are substandard, but that is not a reason for admitting more, so the argument "look at that other article" is not accepted: each is considered on its own merits.
• Wikipedia does not put articles in to please owners, nor does it take them out to please competitors. If the nominator of the deletion discussion had a COI, he should have declared it, but it did not affect the outcome: the article was not deleted until other editors agreed that it did not show notability. Equally, if you are connected with LMMD, you should declare that, and should read WP:PSCOI.
• Wikipedia is very resistant to being used for any kind of promotion. Take care to write in neutral terms. You are not writing for LMMD: you are writing for Wikipedia about it. There is good advice at WP:Your first article.

JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

John: I'll note this "Self-published material may sometimes be acceptable when its author is an established expert whose work in the relevant field has been published by reliable third-party publications." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources#Some_types_of_sources As Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project, the most used open source LDAP software in the world, it's fair to say that I, as the author of this work, am an established expert in the relevant field. My papers have been reviewed and presented at numerous conferences that are again relevant to the field. What are the credentials of the editors who deemed this work not notable? How many world's-fastest software systems have they designed, implemented, released, and maintained over the past couple decades?

If an article is sub-standard, whatever problems pointed out can be addressed and improved. If the article remains. When the article is deleted that possibility is removed.

No one is talking about writing an article to please the owners. The OpenLDAP Foundation is non-profit anyway, we don't get anything out of it. We're talking about a software system that is significantly superior to all others, and is making a huge impact on productivity and efficiency across the range of computing, from handheld devices to enterprise data centers. How is this not notable?

Highlandsun (talk) 02:27, 11 August 2013 (UTC)