Wikipedia article - please help!

[Donn Edwards]

I see JkDefrag is getting more recommendations, this time from Mark Edwards in the Windows Secrets newsletter (paid version)

September 13, 2007, Issue 122

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            Free stand-alone disk defragmentation tool

            Defragmenting your hard drives is important, because doing so increases system speed and reduces drive wear by eliminating unnecessary disk read operations.

            File are stored on your disk in sectors. The more compact your files are, the faster your disk subsystem can find the information and read it. So, naturally, the optimal storage pattern for any file is to have all of its sectors right next to each other.

            That's where disk defragmentation tools come into play. Defrag tools rearrange your files so that they're stored contiguously. Windows comes with a built-in disk deframentation tool, but it's not the fastest one available, nor is it very flexible. In fact, you must run the tool as Administrator, which presents a problem for many users.

            John Mason wrote to us about this problem and asked if we know of any disk defragmentation tools that are self-contained, can run from a flash drive, and don't require Administrator-level access in order to run.

            John, I do know of such a tool. JkDefrag is a free, lightweight tool that that comes in three varieties. The first variety runs as a typical Windows desktop application, the second is a command-line version, and the third is a screensaver that defrags the drive when your screensaver kicks in.

            Another cool feature of JkDefrag is that it defrags floppies and USB-based media, such as flash drives. If you're interested, you can also download the complete source code for use in Microsoft Visual C++.

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[Lundholm]

A Google search for the phrase "windows defrag utilities" now gives a hit for Donn's Wiki User talk page, but not for his personal page. Why is this?

Wikipedia deleted my comprehensive list of defrag programs because they didn't want WWikiPedia to be a "link farm"

There seems to be no consistency in the Wiki policies. The policy applied to the Download Manager article is an indirect link farm using stub articles between the  product list and the product site links, which is fine, but how can you get to this state, if you're not allowed to write neither the list nor the stub articles first?

Furthermore, the overall DM article also contains a link to a list of DM reviews hosted by safer-networking.org, the home of SpybotSD. This could be copied by linking to Donn's reviews.

Anyway, if Donn's Wiki page gives a large number of Google hits, then this is as good as a real Wiki page, I think. Many of my Wiki visits are a direct result of a Google search.

[Syncro_Fei]

Here is my story:

I used to use O&O defrag, when I guess it was free to try. I happened to like that program, and thought I had a copy of it in my Utility folder, but I couldn't find it, so I did a Google search for the word "defrag".

I often do this sort of search to find new free utilities to use, and I ALWAYS go for the Wiki links to get more in-depth information before cruising the links provided.

I clicked the Wiki link to Defragmentation page, and re-read a little bit, to see if there was any news on the defrag issue, but it seems like defragmentation is pretty much the same as it was 10 years ago, so I scrolled down to the links, assuming the "best defrag software on the web" would be linked there. This is not the first time I have used this method to "shop" for stuff like this, and they usually provide the top commercial softwares along with their open-source, or freeware equivalent.

Because I didn't want to use a command line type defragger, and had no interest in a reboot style one, JkDefrag was the first in the list to try. (Well, the only one left anyway, lol) So I clicked that link.

I was surprised by the first thing I saw... The deletion warning for the article. I thought, "what is this all about???", so I clicked over to the discussion to read more about why they were raising such a fuss about this, because I have never seen a Wiki article threatened for deletion, ever, in consistent usage in the past.

"un-noteworthy"? mmm...

Since this program was noteworthy enough for several tech articles, I decided I would try this out and test the determination of those that decided to label this software "un-noteworthy", and see for myself.

This defragmentation program is the newest addition in my arsenal of computer utilities, and I have to say, this is the best defragmentation program I have used since Windows 98. I downloaded the core version from this website, without a GUI, it's still a clean and simple program to use, and in my opinion "NOTEWORTHY".

If by the term "noteworthy", they mean "net-famous", I'm sure in very little time, this little nugget is going to become a common geek tool like so many other popular utilities we all know and love.

Anyone wishing to promote this software on their website or in any article can use anything I have quoted here as reference. I am very impressed with this program, and whoever made the "deletion decision" was clearly jumping to the wrong conclusion, and in my opinion, "a few tacos shy of a fiesta platter".

Finally, a defrag program that allows me to be in total control, and lets me make the heavy decisions about my drives and just how the data is placed within them.

Oh, on a side note, when I signed up for an account, it said it had an error successfully emailing me, but it did allow me to log in and post. This could be a problem if people were to use fake email addresses in order to make bogus accounts, with the intention to either grief the forums, or possibly try to break network security.

[Donn Edwards]

Thanks for your story, it made most interesting reading.

I am pleased to announce that JkDefrag has survived the AfD process largely intact, and a bit improved. Thanks for all the contributions.

[jeroen]

I am pleased to announce that JkDefrag has survived the AfD process largely intact, and a bit improved. Thanks for all the contributions.

Thanks Donn! I see that many people have helped to get the JkDefrag article back on Wikipedia, and my thanks go out to everybody. Especially Kandro ofcourse, for starting the undelete process, but also to you Donn. I see you have relentlessly persued the issue and have involved yourself quite a bit. I thank you.