This thread is to debate changes and improvements required on the Wikipedia page of Elive

The mention of the Retrowave release is a bit uncomplete and its marked that requires a citation, I would suggest to mention that offers the 32 and 64 bit too, maybe with direct downloads, also a clarification of the version number which only means its progress level, about the text I suggest someth…

[image] Thanatermesis: requires a citation Means it requires a (preferably renowned) publication that mentions Retrowave. Alas there have been none of any significance yet. We'll just have to wait that one out.

What you mean? :thinking: there was this news in the website: Elive 'Retrowave' Special version is released! - Elive Linux

That's self-published and (because it's an official blogpost) potentially biased. WP prefers big/respectable news sources (and I don't blame them - who cares what Joe on Wordpress free hosting thinks?)

That is better than the official "trustable" news announcing it? :thinking:, well, anyways, these can be used then I assume: Elive 3.8.34 (Beta): Sobre Elive en la actualidad y su nueva versión Tux Machines — Elive ‘Retrowave’ Stable is released! Linux ✅: "::: R E T R O W A V E Linux :apartyblob: …

[image] Thanatermesis: That is better than the official "trustable" news announcing it? :thinking: Yes because again, you are the maker so you would be biased. And it's fair. Otherwise you could say literal lies about it and WP would be forced to treat ti as a trusted citation.

Considering there is a lack of publications regarding Retrowave, I suppose a link to the announcement could suffice. :thinking: It's not a quotation or a scientific reference just a means of showing that the mentioned occasion really happened. I stumbled across this post a while back and was remin…

[image] TheTechRobo: Yes because again, you are the maker so you would be biased. And it's fair. Otherwise you could say literal lies about it and WP would be forced to treat ti as a trusted citation. Mmmh, yes I understand the bias point but I mean, that's the official news, nothing can be m…

[image] Thanatermesis: That troll doesn't exist anymore and if there's a new one I will take a different strategy, I'm not going to waste more time with stupid people There are many trolls, especially on WP. Just recently there was a thread on fostodon.org about trolling editors and how toxic…

Exactly so im not going to allow more shit from stinky trolls to happen again :slight_smile:

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