User talk:DanielWeinreb

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[edit] Daniel Weinreb

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[edit] Reply To Above

Hi. I have added citations to my publications, and tried to better explain the significance of my work. I hope this is OK.

[edit] Welcome

A general welcome to you; I'm always surprised how many of the figures mentioned in articles on old CS topics eventually show up editing articles - first User:Rmstallman, then User:Russell Noftsker. and now you.

Anyway, as I told Noftsker[1], it's particularly important for people in your sort of position to read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Dealing with edits by the subject of the article, and Wikipedia:Verifiability. For instance, take your edit to Lisp machine[2]; while you may well have been there or discussed it back then with involved person, and so are quite certain of the accuracy of your edit, hapless onlooking editors (such as myself, who had written that bit based on what I'd read in Newquist's book and a few other things like some Stallman speeches) don't know what to think or whether to revert the edit for being unsourced or for not flowing with the other text (ie, if the two companies didn't poach the majority of hackers, then why are only two listed as not having been poached, and where did all of LMI and Symbolic's employees come from?) and so on. --Gwern (contribs) 13:09 25 August 2007 (GMT)

Ping. --Gwern (contribs) 17:53 25 August 2007 (GMT)