Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mauricio Pastrana

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge with Apple TV. However, since the content is already present in Apple TV#Modifications and hacks, I'm just going to redirect the page, leaving the history visible. --jonny-mt 05:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mauricio Pastrana

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This 25 year-old web developer doesn't meet the WP:BIO notability standard. His claim to fame, "enabl[ing] the Apple TV to output color through composite video" isn't backed up by reliable sources, so discussion whether that causes him to meet the notabiliby standard doesn't begin. Ghits seem to refer to a boxer with the same name. brewcrewer (yada, yada) 06:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

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Other than the TUAW publication with regards to the hack (the "claim to fame"), there have been a couple other places and publications which have discussed it, proof that the hack did make a difference for a subset population:

http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/10/12/get-color-output-from-apple-tvs-composite-video-output/

http://asuse3.blogspot.com/2008/03/pon-punto-tu-appletv-parte-3.html

http://www.macitynet.it/macity/aA30610/faq_apple_collegabile_tv_non_il_vostro_vecchio.shtml

http://canalapple.com/wordpress/?p=828

http://www.92apple.com/2007/10/08/found-footage-apple-tv-composite-hack-in-full-color/

( a couple more can be found via a quick google search )


However, more interestingly enough, what this hack did was prove that the appletv video card was capable of generating non-hdtv video and quickly after this someone followed with a software method of composite video output, detailed here: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Composite


If anything, this "story" should be included into the article for AppleTV. I agree that there should be a disambiguation page to differentiate from the Boxer (already in existence in spanish: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Pastrana, perhaps any bilingual wiki'er can help here?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.150.172.234 (talk) 01:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


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  • Keep Just to follow up on this, wouldnt the TUAW constitute as a reliable source? in their environ, TUAW has "credible published materials with a reliable publication process; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject at hand".

TUAW is an AOL publication BTW.

Further, this page was originally inspired by this entry http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Hotz&oldid=153453816, which was not marked afd. -srgeek —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srgeek (talk • contribs) 14:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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