User talk:Zinc5000/Intellitar
What exactly is this article about?
You need to make up your mind about what the topic of this draft article is supposed to be. The title and first sentence claim it is about a specific, trademarked, proprietary software product, the "Intellitarâ„¢", produced by a company with a website called "intellitar.com". According to the lead, one crucial property of this product is its use of visually human-like virtual entities "that can look, sound, and behave in a manner dictated by the user".
Further down, the article cites sources as if they were about the topic of the article, but those sources are ostensibly about something else:
- This page about "intelligent agents" is about a much wider, generic class of software products: "software tools that incorporate aspects of artificial intelligence" and "act more or less independently on the user's behalf". It doesn't mention "Intellitars", and as far as I can see it doesn't even mention anything like "avatars" (visual human-like representations) at all. It is mostly about computer maintenance tools. Sure, an "intellitar" might count as an example of that wider, generic class of "intelligent agents", but it doesn't mention them or indeed anything like them specifically.
- This page about "avatars in education" does talk about avatars, but it's basically a commercial about what seems to be a different proprietary product, a technology called "AlterEgos", produced by "alteregos.com". No mention of "intellitars", no indication that they are the same thing.
If you discount these two sources (the second of which is evidently low quality, because it's essentially just an advert posing as a magazine article), then what is left? Is there any reliable source providing independent coverage of "Intellitars" (in the proper sense, i.e. that particular proprietary product), independent of its makers? That will be the crucial question at the WP:AFD (which I guess will be unavoidable, if this article ever goes back into mainspace), and without a good answer to this question the article will be doomed. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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The following references were removed from the article:
- <ref name="Avatars in Education">{{cite web | url = http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/education/talking-avatars-in-education-the-virtual-teacher-comes-of-age.html | title = Avatars in Education | last = Jay | first = Andre J}}</ref>
- <ref name="Intelligent agent overview">{{cite web | url = http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~lynda_abbott/webpage.html | title = General Overview of Intelligent Agents | last = utexas.edu}}</ref>[1]