Talk:Graphical Network Simulator-3

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Computing: Software / Free and open-source software This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Software. This article is supported by Free and open-source software (assessed as Low-importance).

As near as I can tell this article is as good as lifted from the only linked reference, which is an advertisement for the product in question. Wikipedia is not a place to copy a company's descriptions (

• I've tagged it with these issues specifically. I'm debating whether or not it would be
  a good point in time, though, for this article to exist. Will it become more popular among the community? If it doesn't become notable soon, it may as well face a deletion. FosterHaven (talk) 07:23, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• I agree that the article could use a proper rewrite to match the quality standards that we've come to expect from other software related articles - at the moment it's more like a stub really. As for the notability point - I think this subject is notable and deserves an article. GNS3 has been around for ages and it is a vital tool used by Network Engineers around the world to simulate networks both for testing out configurations before they are applied to actual network infrastructure and also as a tool used for learning. From what I know, GNS3 isn't a commercial product and isn't a for-profit business - it's a free/open-source project. --Pavithran (talk) 09:02, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Moved the article to: Graphical_Network_Simulator-3 while using GNS3 for the redirect. Trying to re-write the article now :)

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://web.archive.org/web/20130727131131/http://www.gns3.net/. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see