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Cleanup[edit]

a cleanup tag was added to this page on 24 december 2005. edcolins accidentally posted the rationale in the edit log instead of the talk page. It looks like the clean-up ed requested was done on 31 december, as the shutdown of ffii.org section was removed then. Therefore I removed the clean-up tag today (Feb 17, 2006.) Anonymous Coward.

General advice[edit]

I've done some clean-up on this article. Here are some explanations of my changes and motivations:

Articles must be timeless. Sentences cannot start with "Recently", or "Last year", or "The most recent conference was on...". Remember that people might read this in 2009 or 2015, and the reader doesn't know if the article was written in 2009 or 2004, so times have to be absolute, not relative.
Claims have to be referenced or at least reference-able. "FFII is the leading organisation" is fine for FFII's homepage, but isn't good for an encyclopedia article. "FFII is very active" and "FFII played an organisational role" are better because if someone wants a reference, then it's probably possible to find something to back these up. For a "leading organisation", the article could say that FFII was acknowledged as the leading organisation on such a date by organisations X, Y, and Z - and add references.
This article is about FFII, not about software patents in general. Links should only be added if they explain what FFII is and does. If there's a great link about why software patents suck, that should be addded to software patents debate or some such article.

Hope that helps. --Gronky (talk) 14:28, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whose is the petition[edit]

It's a EuroLinux Alliance petition. FFII seems to be one member of that group. Surely the most active member, but what's the accurate way to describe the petition so that this article and the EuroLinux article aren't contradicting each other. --Gronky (talk) 00:30, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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