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:I agree, it's not a product, it's a web-tech, like [[Web cookie|cookies]]. I think that if there's an article about cookies, there should be one about JS [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]] ([[User talk:Rudxain|talk]]) 08:28, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

::yeah, it's more of a general theme article regarding how it's used that we'd want i guess, rather than an article discussing the language itself (though obviously things about the language would be brought up). [[User:Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Keith|talk]]) 08:47, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

:::Agreed, if we need an explainer article for JS, we should just link to Wikipedia. Any incidents/themes explicitly involving JS should have their own dedicated articles [[User:JamesTDG|JamesTDG]] ([[User talk:JamesTDG|talk]]) 08:52, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

:::I forgot to mention that there are some cases in which the ''mere existence'' of JS (as a standard) can negatively impact users, even when it's optional. One of the External-Links [https://github.com/Rudxain/blog/blob/a326c9db28c9f7eb6e30e6a737ca4aeae0d2ee39/post/js-abuse.md#to-do contains a source] for that, so please give me some time to complete the article :( [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]] ([[User talk:Rudxain|talk]]) 09:16, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

:::Wait, isn't JS too specific to be a theme? I think a proper theme would be "Forced software" (similarly to [[Forced app download|FADL]]). It makes sense, because many of the bad things about JS are shared/in-common with anything that executes code ("dynamic/active content") [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]] ([[User talk:Rudxain|talk]]) 11:35, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

::::it's not essential that themes be broad - the main reason to use them is when 'this is a thing that is a general issue, but is not linked to a single product or company', I'd say? and the effects of JS on the web ecosystem are definitely not classifiable as an incident that can be pinned on a single company, and can't even really be blamed on the language itself, it's the whole ecosystem that exists around it. [[User:Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Keith|talk]]) 12:14, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

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 :I agree, it's not a product, it's a web-tech, like [[Web cookie|cookies]]. I think that if there's an article about cookies, there should be one about JS [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]] ([[User talk:Rudxain|talk]]) 08:28, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
 ::yeah, it's more of a general theme article regarding how it's used that we'd want i guess, rather than an article discussing the language itself (though obviously things about the language would be brought up). [[User:Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Keith|talk]]) 08:47, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
+:::Agreed, if we need an explainer article for JS, we should just link to Wikipedia. Any incidents/themes explicitly involving JS should have their own dedicated articles  [[User:JamesTDG|JamesTDG]] ([[User talk:JamesTDG|talk]]) 08:52, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
+:::I forgot to mention that there are some cases in which the ''mere existence'' of JS (as a standard) can negatively impact users, even when it's optional. One of the External-Links [https://github.com/Rudxain/blog/blob/a326c9db28c9f7eb6e30e6a737ca4aeae0d2ee39/post/js-abuse.md#to-do contains a source] for that, so please give me some time to complete the article :( [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]] ([[User talk:Rudxain|talk]]) 09:16, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
+:::Wait, isn't JS too specific to be a theme? I think a proper theme would be "Forced software" (similarly to [[Forced app download|FADL]]). It makes sense, because many of the bad things about JS are shared/in-common with anything that executes code ("dynamic/active content") [[User:Rudxain|Rudxain]] ([[User talk:Rudxain|talk]]) 11:35, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
+::::it's not essential that themes be broad - the main reason to use them is when 'this is a thing that is a general issue, but is not linked to a single product or company', I'd say? and the effects of JS on the web ecosystem are definitely not classifiable as an incident that can be pinned on a single company, and can't even really be blamed on the language itself, it's the whole ecosystem that exists around it. [[User:Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Keith|talk]]) 12:14, 18 March 2026 (UTC)