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I am planning on fixing grammar and style issues and cleaning up the article in general. If you disagree with with any of the content removal, please let me know. Thanks. — Preceding
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Can you be more specific about changes
Tonymetz
💬 16:36, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. The consensus was to create a new category or page for cybersecurity than move the current one. ( non-admin closure) Captain Jack Sparrow ( talk) 12:52, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Computer security → Cybersecurity – Google Ngrams speaks for itself on the fact that cybersecurity is the WP:COMMONNAME by a wide margin. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 10:54, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
I feel Computer Security in using Wikipedia is unreliable. With a breach of IBM in Colorado healthcare due to some CLOP ransomware gang in Russia. Could be the Shadowcrew again involving hackers Russian and Cuban like Albert Gonzalez. People who developed database management and IBM software are being targeted as individuals as being the problem is wrong to do. INFORMATION gets proliferated more as a weapon of mass destruction. They have terrorists and serial killer Biographic data on wikipedia and this is why threats exist. Terrorists using Wikipedia as advantage. 65.163.112.196 ( talk) 12:05, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
I suggest creating a new article to separate cybersecurity form computer security, the justification and explanation of why it is different is in the suggested article: /info/en/?search=Draft:Cybersecurity
But in summary, both concepts can be improved having separate articles for Computer Security and cybersecurity, because cybersecurity includes the protection of elements and processes which are not technology but depend on technology, as society depends more and more on technology. Pcoronaf ( talk) 22:11, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I've recently been contracted to do some editing work on Wikipedia articles, and this is one of the articles my employers would like improving.
(TLDR; I'm trying to make the article easier and more accessible for the general public to help improve their own computer security, so some topics may be moved around.)
I've recently completely some research for my master's degree on making Wikipedia more easy to understand and readable. The research includes surveying over 500 members of the general public on their responses to climate change articles on Wikipedia. The results suggest that both readability scores on Wikipedia are detrimental to people's understanding of the information, and in some cases can lead to people mistrusting the information. I'm looking to implement some of these findings into this article - in short, improve the readability of certain sections.
As well as readability, I also want to better prioritise information which suits the general public. Both the order of the article and the way advice is discussed on this article is slightly counterintuitive to aiding the general public on increasing their knowledge about computer security. Although computer security is a broad topic, topics that are within the realm of control or importance to the general public are mainly limited to protection and safety. This isn't prioritised in this article and is hidden amongst various subsections.
Over the next few weeks I will test moving some things around in the article with the goal of making the article more productive and easy to navigate for the general public. I hope to maintain the overall tone and information of the article, but simultaneously make it more helpful for the general public.
Please be free to comment on any of my edits if you believe it is changing the article in any way that you see unfit, and I would be more than happy to discuss your comments.
Theobrad (
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In the vein of condensing the article: keeping the information concise and in the right section, I believe this section (which is currently at the bottom of the article) may be slightly redundant following the rest of the information. With all respect to the author, as the section nicely summarises some of the points, unless it is placed high and condensed a bit as a kind of "summary" of issues, I don't think it should remain on its own at the bottom.
Would love to hear people's thoughts.
Theobrad ( talk) 12:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)