Talk:RIFE

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Hello! My name is Dr. Patricia Rife, and our family are descendents from the Swiss REIFF family, who emigrated to America as Mennonites in 1680 from the Zurich area. As a Professor of E-Marketing with the University of Maryland, I would appreciate it is ANYone sees an attempt to copyright our family name, which is treasured. Please refer them to me at BusinessCenterWritersExpress@yahoo.com Thank you!

Patricia Rife, Ph.D 66.32.162.97 13:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


The following is written by Gbevin, copied from Duk's talk page, regarding supposed copyvio:

Concerning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pengo#RIFE

Hi, I'm the original copyright holder, Pengo has full permission from me to paste this text here.

Best regards,

Geert

Duk has also confirmed the legitimacy of the page via email. (see his talk page for details)

—Pengo 09:04, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] why called RIFE?

Midgley 21:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Recently reading up on RIFE, I found a statement by G. Bevin where he states that he simply thumbed through the dictionary for a short word suitable for use as a name. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the spot to give you a link and reference. Carl Smotricz 11:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV?

I'm on the verge of becoming a RIFE fan and was pleased to see a Wikipedia article on this project/product. However, the tone of the article is glowingly positive and sounds a lot like Geert's own documentation, from which it's apparently been excerpted. That this is so looks to me to be a mild case of an end run around Wikipedia's injunction against submitting one's own research, and consequently the requirement of neutral point of view.

Don't get me wrong: I feel that any article is better than no article, and this one certainly gives a good introduction. But I would like even more to see a not-just-positive discussion. Someone from outside the RIFE team might be able to contribute comments about the learning curve, tool/IDE integration, performance, etc.

I'd volunteer such an update myself, but as yet unfortunately I have no experience with RIFE. Carl Smotricz 11:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I concur. Especially the first pair of paragraphs. Definate aura of a description by a promoter. I would edit but am not familiar enough with RIFE. Bluegerbil 14:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
I have nominated the article for NPOV review. I don't think one necessarily needs experience with the product to justify some wording changes to eliminate unqualified positive emphasis. --Energyst (talk) 20:42, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Royal Rife Radical Radiation Riteup?

In researching RIFE, most of what I came across are sites about someone's idea of curing cancer with electromagnetism. I strongly suspect that this stuff is pure humbug, but I would have liked to read a discussion about it here in Wikipedia. Again, I'm hesitant to volunteer to do this myself because (a) I know nothing about it other than what I just wrote and (b) I doubt I could keep my personal negative bias out of the article. So... anyone else? Carl Smotricz 11:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Rife-logo.png

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