Debate issues raised by this page, if any remain, at Wikipedia_talk:verifiability and Wikipedia_talk:outing. None should remain, as the actual article debated was ultimately discredited. Specifically:
- it seems to rely on an incorrect mailing list posting asserting the subject claimed credit for particular works republished at Wikipedia
- it seems to assume that having authored the work means they are the person who posted it to Wikipedia
- some assertions are at odds with all published biographies of this person, notably re: education
- other assertions are easily proven false with any search engine, e.g. that the majority of postings by this person to USENET were regarding the Commodore Amiga
The original debate on this article was flawed in that it assumed the above assertions correct. Please do not repeat those assertions. It would be better to refer to more recent cases, and more accurate articles, in debating these issues of Wikipedia:verifiability and Wikipedia:outing. Housework 03:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
- How was the mailing list posting necessarily incorrect? Where's the proof of it not being correct? How was this page discredited? you didn't provide proof... I see you seem to be one of those single-purpose accounts that made a few edits and went poof, btw. — Rickyrab | Talk 00:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
maybe this should be on teh talk page — Rickyrab | Talk 00:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)