Talk:Daniel J. Barrett

Notability

I have been advised by User:Ronz on User_talk:Djbwiki to provide some evidence of notability. OK, here are some based on the subtopics in my article.

As a technology author

• Wrote six technology books listed on my article page. One of them (Linux Pocket Guide) has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.
• I can provide citations of around 30 reviews of my books, including Slashdot, Linux Journal, Desktop Linux, OS News, Internet World, SunWorld Online, Hotwired Magazine, Sys Admin magazine, etc.
• Wrote a monthly column in Keyboard Magazine for two years on music and the Internet, called "Net Smarts." January 1997 - December 1998. (Not found online, but here's some proof I found.)
• Wrote a monthly column in COMPUTE! magazine on computer humor from March - September 1993.
• Appeared on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw on June 12, 1998, as a featured expert on Internet security for consumers.
• My book "Bandits on the Information Superhighway" was featured on the Discovery Channel "Cyberlife" show #404 on April 25, 1996.
• Appeared on CBS Radio (WCBS News Radio, New York City) on May 23, 1996, for an hour-long interview on Internet security for consumers. I can provide similar citations for 14 other radio shows.
• I have been interviewed for newspaper and magazine articles in the Financial Times of London, Network World, Salt Lake Tribune, Datamation Magazine, Information Today, Interactive Marketing News, Oakland Tribune, The Morning Call, USA Today, Springfield Union News, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Globe, Springfield Union-News, Daily Hampshire Gazette, New Jersey Star Ledger, and the Huntsville Times. I can provide citations, though most articles are not online.

Gentle Giant

• I founded the Gentle Giant web site on my own, and it was subsequently adopted by the band as their official site. (Proof: the site is declared "official" on all the "35th anniversary" US CD releases from DRT Entertainment.)
• I assembled the CD compliation Edge of Twilight for Polygram Records, including track selection, liner notes, etc.
• I co-compiled the rare-tracks CD Under Construction for the band, listening to the music in advance and selecting and ordering the tracks.
• I am thanked by name on both official Gentle Giant DVD releases, Giant on the Box and GG at the GG.

BLAZEMONGER

This might fall into the "You Had To Be There" department, but during the 1990s my BLAZEMONGER articles were being seen by tens of thousands of Commodore Amiga users on Usenet. They were collected on the Fish Disks too. It became part of Usenet lore and was well-known within Commodore engineering. If you google for BLAZEMONGER today, you get thousands of hits.

(Incidentally, I did not write the Blazemonger wikipedia page, though I made some light edits after discovering it.)

Software engineer

As a software engineer, I created ESP, the Experience Sampling Program, a free, open-source application for research scientists, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Does this help?

Djbwiki 06:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the helpme tag, because someone else has removed the {{subst:prod}} tag. At the moment, the article is not being deleted, and the information you've given here has been helpful in establishing notability and verifiability of the article. I hope that helps!

Deletion tag removed Feb 27, 2007

I have removed the PROD tag since the article meets notability and verifiability requirements. AvB ÷ talk 08:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Per WP:COI, it seems the appropriate thing to do in a Vanity case such as this is to delete the content from article space and move it onto Daniel Barrett's user page. See here for more info. Any thoughts? -- Levine2112 ^discuss 16:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Please consider this statement from the COI page: Who has written the material should be irrelevant so long as these policies are closely adhered to. The imputation of conflict of interest is not by itself a good reason to remove sound material from articles. AvB ÷ talk 23:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Strongly adhered to? This is a commercial site made by the author, a professional computer internet specialist, about himself, promoting himself. Thank you. I saw your comments on the Arb of Barrett Vs Rosenthal and was interested to see you and Ronz here too. Thank you again. Ilena (chat) 23:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

See my comments below. Please do not make any inferences regarding my contributions to your arbitration case. Thank you. AvB ÷ talk 23:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Article COI issues

This appears to be yet another of many commercial sites of Daniel J Barrett's

Evidence reveals he has taken other Wiki user names to promote his wife's business and other businesses of his. This is a very savvy, educated, man who, in my opinion, knows exactly what he has gotten away with so far.

This is all commercial commercial commercial. Daniel Barrett is also a "science editor" for his father, Stephen Barrett and his Quackwatch operation. According to Barrett's Asst. Listmaster, Daniel Barrett operates Stephen Barrett's websites for him. Fyslee explains: I'll be happy to explain my "relationship" with Barrett... I have no access to, or control of, any of Barrett's websites. He and his son, and possibly other assistants, take care of that stuff. Fyslee 07:15, 16 September 2006

(please scroll to the bottom of the page) Daniel J. Barrett Computer Consultant, Web designer.

I have a substantial amount of evidence I am compiling that the subject of this article has multiple user names for various businesses he advertises on Wiki. Evidence reveals he also has the user name Blazemonger, also promoting one of his businesses. I know it may seem that I am not WP:AGF when if fact, I know alot about this man and his father and their businesses. Thank you and feel free to ask me anything on my talk page. Ilena (chat) 23:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Please note that a conflict of interest is only a problem when the editor in question violates policies such as WP:NPOV, WP:BLP, WP:Consensus. Your evidence (if it materializes -- so far it resembles a vaporware announcement) will prove exactly nothing without community-supported establishment of policy violations. Even then, when the editor, having been warned, refrains from repeating the same mistakes in the future, there is no problem. For now you haven't even started to establish a consensus regarding any wrongdoings by this editor. All we see is your assertion that this article is "a commercial site". You need to provide arguments addressing which edit violates which policy. AvB ÷ talk 23:59, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I have noted your comments on the Barrett V Rosenthal Arb [1]. I was happy to see that the scores and scores of edits you had not attributed to Fyslee were revealed to you, all WP:COI. I believe this is all linked and more will definitely be revealed about Fyslee and Barrett and Barrett and their Wiki operations. Thank you. Ilena (chat) 00:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Please stop referring to my contributions to your arbitration case on article talk pages. Also please do not imply or hint, here or elswhere, that I might have COI problems regarding this case. Thank you. AvB ÷ talk 00:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it appears that both you and Ronz may be in that category. [[2]. No page is an island. Cheers from the Jungles. Ilena (chat) 00:39, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Anyone object to this section being immeditately moved to an archive on account that it's irrelevant and distracting? --Ronz 00:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I strongly object. I found this response to editor's inability to find scores of links that Barrett's publicist had made. [3]

Please do not archive this until Arb is finished and more about Daniel J Barrett and his various commerical sites on Wikipedia are investigated more thoroughly and how they relate to the Arb. Thanks Ronz. It all comes together, please be patient.