Talk:SG

Removal of SCSI Generic entry

Someone removed the SG (SCSI Generic) Linux driver. Check the device file article and search on the web (e.g. using Google) for SCSI Generic: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=SCSI+Generic 66.155.23.67 (talk) 11:49, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

That someone would be me. Disambiguation pages serve the purpose of helping someone find an article when there are articles that share the same name. In this case articles where the subject of the article could be known as SG. You added the entry, "SCSI Generic, SCSI pass-through device driver for Linux." According to the Manual of Style each entry has one blue link. Yours had three. I went through the three links to see what the best link would be. There is an external link in SCSI that discusses the generic SCSI driver for Linux but the article itself does not mention it and does not use SG anywhere. Device file does say UNIX like operating systems use sg as the prefix for the generic SCSI layer but nothing about a device driver. Linux does not use SG or SCSI anywhere in the article. So the only article I could have possibly left a link to would be device file. I did not see that as appropriate as there is no discussion of the generic SCSI layer in the article, it is just a passing mention in a list of prefixes. If someone did type SG into the search bar looking for information on the the SCSI generic device driver they would not find any information about it at that article, they wouldn't even find any information on the generic SCSI layer. There was no article to connect this entry to that made sense. -- GB fan 16:44, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Sounds like the underlying problem is that Wikipedia is missing an article for a SCSI Generic device... Any volunteers to start/write one? ;-) 66.155.23.67 (talk) 14:15, 28 October 2016 (UTC)