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This is fascinating and amusing at the same time somehow: There exist persons, who have a) their own user page in Wikipedia and b) a Wikipedia page about them. I'm quite curious, if there are more of them than Alan Cox and User:AlanCox. (Not yet filled with content, but possible, but see User talk:AlanCox. :-) --XTaran 22:51, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

How about Jimmy Wales and User:Jimbo Wales? 69.68.55.237

Well, there's Theodore Ts'o and User:Tytso (but I'm not going to edit my own Wikipedia page; that would be too wierd!) Ted 19:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So Alan you wrote a computer Game called Seas of Blood in 1986 based on the fighting fantasy book of the same name? Htaccess 07:14, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Programming freedom

Article references "programming freedom." What does this refer to, specifically? Free (GNU-style) software? Can we turn this phrase into a link to a Wikipedia article? Jdavidb 19:24, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, that would be correct. Possibly a link to the League for Programming Freedom, but that's not quite right. Ted 19:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

born?

born??

Image

I changed the image to a clearer one I found at http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Image:Cox.png

--Achitnis 15:05, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Response from ClemsonLinux.org

This image was originally obtained around 20 July 2004 from a google image search for Alan Cox. I've gone back to google now to try and find the original home, but didn't find it in the first 11 pages of search results. (did find us, which is where I imagine you found us as well).

Therefore I do not know where it originally is from, but it at least was somewhere out on the web. I imagine this does not help your burden of copyright information. Apologies that I do not have the additional information you requested.

OK, have reverted back to the original picture until we can find a better one of Alan with clear copyright info.

--Achitnis 19:46, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Dense" comments?

Is that an attempt to literally translate a word from another language? According to a dictionary, this meaning is:

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

Let's change it to something that more accurately represents the meaning?

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 :How about [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[User:Jimbo Wales]]? [[User:69.68.55.237|69.68.55.237]]
+:Well, there's [[Theodore Ts'o]] and [[User:Tytso]] (but I'm not going to edit my own Wikipedia page; that would be too wierd!)  [[User:Tytso|Ted]] 19:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 So Alan you wrote a computer Game called Seas of Blood in 1986 based on the fighting fantasy book of the same name? [[User:Htaccess|Htaccess]] 07:14, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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 Article references "programming freedom."  What does this refer to, specifically?  Free (GNU-style) software?  Can we turn this phrase into a link to a Wikipedia article? [[User:Jdavidb|Jdavidb]] 19:24, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
+: Yes, that would be correct.   Possibly a link to the [[League for Programming Freedom]], but that's not quite right.  [[User:Tytso|Ted]] 19:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 == born? ==