Wikipedia talk:Co-op/Shiteshsachan

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Hello, Shiteshsachan! Thank you for your interest in the Co-op. You've been matched with Anne Delong, who has listed "best practices" in their mentorship profile. Your mentor will be contacting you soon to get things started. HostBot (talk) 07:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Shiteshsachan. I see that you have come up against Wikipedia's policy against how-to articles and original research. You have written an interesting and useful guide, but you should find a more suitable place to host it.

There could be an encyclopedia article about this topic, but it would be totally different, more historical, and not include any advice to the reader or your own ideas. For example, if recognized experts in Java programming have discussed its security weaknesses in computer magazines or journals, you could summarize their findings, such as "In 2002, Mary Jones, in CPU Magazine,(insert reference to the magazine article here) explained how poor coding practices, in particular ______, could lead to software vulnerabilities such as ________. Hackers taking advantage of this very weakness were able to ______________. (insert reference to news article about hacked websites and unhappy customers). Bob Smith, in his book Success with Java, described a method avoiding this problem by _______,(insert reference to Bob's book here) and this method was endorsed by Professor Abel Parker (insert reference to Abel's journal article)."

You can see that this is quite different from just writing "Don't do X; do Y instead". Your security guide (which lists good coding practices in any language, really) is clearly written, and I hope that even if you don't manage to get this topic into the encyclopedia you will stick around and user your account to improve/expand exiting articles on computer programming. Some of these are out of date, and others are difficult to understand, because not all people who write good code are also good at clear writing in English!—Anne Delong (talk) 13:28, 23 March 2015 (UTC)