Talk:Screens of death
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Guru meditations, rows of bombs, sad Macs, Grim Reapers...programmers are silly people. -Toptomcat 23:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- What's also silly is redirecting all those separate articles into one unwieldy central article. (Especially kernel panic, which predates the concept of a BSOD by at least 20 years.) The redirecting is being undone. Haikupoet 01:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- This has resulted in a rather stupid state that the sections of this article are copy-and-paste duplicates of the individual articles. Material copied directly from other articles should be replaced by a wikilink to those articles. JIP | Talk 10:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- I guess I could do it, but I'd be afraid of taking a chainsaw to the article and turning "just right" into "not enough". Haikupoet 03:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- This has resulted in a rather stupid state that the sections of this article are copy-and-paste duplicates of the individual articles. Material copied directly from other articles should be replaced by a wikilink to those articles. JIP | Talk 10:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re-rewriting
Okay, I took a look at the history, and it seems that someone has meticulously added most of the redundant commentary that had been taken out. I reverted to the state of the article on 13 November, then added in an intro that had been written by a later editor. There really is no need for this article to be anything but a summary -- each individual screen of death (with the exception of White, which doesn't seem to have much to say for itself, being not so much a failure mode as a failure) has its own article in much greater detail. There's no need to elaborate much beyond this, and there's certainly no reason to go back to merging the contents of the other articles back in here as was done before. (Not only does it make for an unwieldy page in terms of navigation, but as it was originally done it was Windows-centric, definitely an NPOV violation).
I'd like to address the comment in the history about a summary format not being needed because the article is under 32K -- that isn't the only consideration here. Disambig pages don't have extensive information on the items they disambiguate, and this particular page serves a rather similar function. Short descriptions are all that is really necessary, and those who wish further information can go to the article without having to scroll through information they don't want. Haikupoet 03:42, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Well Windows NT5.1 (XP) and the Black Screen of death is still here. It didn't go away with Windows 3.x and NT 3.x !! 74.224.98.169 00:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
