Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Bill Fikes

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The result of the debate was - deleted - SimonP 00:23, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Fikes

Unable to find any supporting information in Google. Possible hoax. Unless some external evidence can be provided, I say Delete.-gadfium 02:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I no longer think this may be a hoax, but it still should be deleted. Programmers in the 1960s worked on many ideas which became popular/important later, but that doesn't make them notable, and the incident in this article isn't verifiable.-gadfium 03:09, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Looks like a hoax. EvilPhoenix 06:13, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

--216.152.190.235 08:30, 18 May 2005 (UTC) External evidence would be in the Pentagon, and would require a Freedom of Information act request. or in the memory of any co workers that he may have had at the time that are still alive. (Dad's almost 80) The only available evidence aside from that is the word of Bill Fikes. As he is my Father I have no reason to doubt his story, which has remained unchanged for many years.

From a personnel viewpoint I can attest that I lived at Ft. Huachuca from 1962 to 1964, I attended Whiteside Elementary and a school in Serria Vista. While there my Father worked on computers and could not talk about his work.

Thank you for your clarification. Is there any reason to believe that Microsoft's implementation was influenced by your father's at all, or is it simply that the same name was used for two pieces of code which had a broadly similar purpose?-gadfium 08:51, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, unverifiable/speculation/secret conspiracy stuff. Radiant_* 09:02, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete although the author may be honest, an encyclopedia should be a secondary, not primary, source of information Terrace4 09:29, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not verifiable, non-notable. Quale 15:18, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as unverifiable. --Carnildo 19:54, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Even if verifiable, nn. RickK 22:09, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unverifiable. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:34, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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