User talk:Dkogan55
May 2023
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Hello, I'm MrOllie. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. [1] MrOllie (talk) 21:34, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello. Is this the page you're referring to? If so, how were the removed links inappropriate? And how were they more appropriate than what you kept? There are a number of tools available for camera calibration, and Zhang's software (the only tool link that you kept) is used by approximately nobody. Almost everyone that actually does this uses opencv. That tool has issues, which is why mrcal exists. The link to mrcal you removed contains both the software and very detailed documentation that would be very useful to somebody wanting to calibrate cameras (using any tool, not just mrcal). If that isn't appropriate, then I don't know what is. Can you please put the links back? Thanks. Dkogan55 (talk) 21:44, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia isn't a link directory. The purpose of this site is not to host lists of external links to tools, and it definitely is not for you to add links to your tool on multiple pages. I will not put the links back, no. MrOllie (talk) 21:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Can you please reference the guidelines that you posted? I just looked at them. They say
- Some acceptable external links include those that contain further research that is accurate and on-topic, information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail, or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its accuracy.
- The opencv and mrcal links are clearly within both the letter and spirit of those guidelines. They both provide useful information about the topic, but are too detailed to include in the article. Anybody wanting to learn about the topic in question would be well served by reading both those pages. If you want to cut down on the links, throw them all away: the ones you kept contain no value. Dkogan55 (talk) 21:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- And how deep does this go? For instance this section of another page lists some tools that model lenses. I think that's fully appropriate; do you? If so, adding a link to the [splined-stereographic lens models] would be appropriate too, since it's a higher fidelity method to solve that problem that's thoroughly documented, and available to the public via open-source tools.
- I just don't understand how you're deciding what is and is not appropriate Dkogan55 (talk) 21:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia isn't a link directory. The purpose of this site is not to host lists of external links to tools, and it definitely is not for you to add links to your tool on multiple pages. I will not put the links back, no. MrOllie (talk) 21:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC)