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Was this written by RPG? It's full of all sorts of details that are very difficult to historically authenticate. (Almost got accepted to MIT and Harvard? As far as I know, all college admissions processes are designed to be totally opaque to the users.) I could ask Winston if the thing about his
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When someone broke up External links and References into two sections, they left Gabriel's poetry book under the references section which doesn't make any sense organizationally. So the poetry is now moved under external links though I still don't find this completely satisfactory.
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Is that how people who know him refer to him? I don't know him; but I've seen his name before, and I knew that "Richard Gabriel" was a certain Lisp hacker, founder of Lucid, and author of "Worse is Better", but never knew his middle initial. I'd certainly have looked under
452:, since that's what he calls himself; and since it's definitely true that most people looking for a "Richard Gabriel" will be looking for RPG (the alternative is a cricket player with a one-line stub created because someone wanted cricket players to have articles), 445:, I find that everything RPG wrote says "Richard P. Gabriel" or his email address or initials, and nearly everything he didn't says "Richard Gabriel" (which makes sense since people are used to ignoring most people's middle names.) 615: 403:". Such a move implies that most folks looking for the name Richard Gabriel would expect to find this person. It is better to have "Richard Gabriel" as a disambiguation page, leaving this article where it is. -- 279:
It is sourced from some of the autobiographical entries. See the external links. Generally, if the subject volunteers the info, we don't accept it (since it isn't published anywhere), but that doesn't apply
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In the computer community, people call him Dick Gabriel. In the poetry community, people call him Richard Gabriel. He publishes his poetry as Richard P. Gabriel. He signs his emails as rpg.
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And would you ask Winston? RPG has looked this article over, and I have no reason not to trust him, but it'd still be best to get independent confirmation. --
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being offered a position at the AI lab is true, but I suppose it's not that important. This article just seems kind of fanboyish.
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
417:. I've never heard RPG referred to as simply Richard Gabriel. Dick Gabriel, yes, but never simply Richard Gabriel. -- 559:
The partition into "References" and "External links" is a Knowledge standard, which you can find documented in the
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I'm guessing you're new to Knowledge. You can find out who made what edit and why by checking the
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book belongs in References, not External links, so I'm reverting (undoing your move). --
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal.
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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So I think the conclusion is that the page should be titled
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to here, I see no reason not to move this page to there. —
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or suchlike. I started to do this, moving the stub to
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