Talk:Rusty Foster

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An individual covered by or significantly related to this article, Rusty Foster, has edited Wikipedia as Kuro5hin (talk · contribs)

This article was nominated for deletion on 25 September 2005. The result of the discussion was keep.

"On Wikipedia, Foster is known as Ta bu shi da yu, and is notorious for stalking some individuals, watching their every WikiMove, seemingly on a minute-by-minute basis." - welcome to the world of watchlists! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:51, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Surprisingly, this article doesn't get vandalized as much as you'd think. Rhobite 14:34, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Score: 3, encouragement :-) Ta bu shi da yu 04:34, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 from VfD 2 Donation drive 3 Monocle 4 Armstrong Zuniga 5 Update

[edit] from VfD

On 20 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Rusty Foster for a record of the discussion.

[edit] Donation drive

Rusty (user Kuro5hin) seems intent on removing all mention of the donation drive. But the donation drive did occur, did raise $70k and led to the CMF proposal. Rusty: what facts do you believe are "lies"? Charles Godwin 11:19, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I thought the fundraising drive raised $35,000. Got a cite? Anyway the drive should be mentioned. The rest are silly allegations, troll stuff. If the CMF (or lack thereof) is mentioned anywhere, it should be Kuro5hin. Rhobite 16:34, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Charles - Rusty doesn't have to answer that at all, if the facts are disputed, then it's up to us to give a source for them. And a source does not mean "some guy's blog" - either we have clear references from reputable sources or we don't include this. Yes, it's considered a bad idea for people to edit articles about themselves, but we can hardly expect Rusty not to react to allegations here - the best idea is for us to make it so he doesn't have to. If the article is clear, sourced, and from a neutral point of view then he won't need to edit -- sannse (talk) 10:28, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Monocle

The final paragraph goes "A long-running joke is that Rusty wears a monocle and enjoys yachting. The joke is a reference to the success of Kuro5hin's pledge drive". I think this needs to be further explained; it makes no sense. -Ashley Pomeroy 17:17, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I added a context and references for the "monocle" joke. Xunker 07:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Armstrong Zuniga

Armstrong Zuniga has been dissolved. The reference to it here sould either be removed, or put into past tense.

[edit] Update

So if he's no longer the CTO, where dose he work now?

Well, why don't you send the wikistapo after him to find out? Ninth Circle

I thought everybody knew that Rusty just sails the world on the superyacht he bought with the CMF funds, laughing and polishing his monocle. Or something. Ubernostrum 18:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC)