Talk:Randy Pausch

Links

Not sure why there's a whole bunch of cs.virginia links in place of original links... In any case I really don't see the reason for them (eg. 'he's been on oprah so here's a cs.virginia link instead of the oprah link!) and I've removed the non-necessary/repetitive links. Please discuss on here before going back and replacing again. Thanks. --ImmortalGoddezz (talk) 19:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

• Somebody is trying to give his career a boost, IMHO. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 20:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah it certainly looks like somebody is pushing the cs.virginia links.. haven't been watching the page long enough to see any trend but *shrug. Hopefully this link pushing won't become too much of a problem in the future. :/ --ImmortalGoddezz (talk) 01:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Randy Pausch had many links to the UVA computer science department, as well as the UVA psychology department (via Dennis Proffitt, among others). It seems incredibly unlikely that the UVA links are malicious in any way. CMU and UVA are two of the most likely legitimate sources of links that you should expect to find for Randy Pausch. Whether it's appropriate for the entry or not is a question you can all decide, but don't question the motives... these people know and love Randy Pausch!76.199.1.207 (talk) 06:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Last Lecture in public domain?

I saw on WSJ's feature on Pausch that his last lecture would be (or has been) released to the public domain. I was wondering about the status of this and maybe if there is some independent confirmation. Axem Titanium (talk) 05:04, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

No, definitely not under public domain. According to his website [1] the video and transcript are licensed under Creative Commons non-commercial license. "[Y]ou may use them for non-commercial purposes, so long as you don't alter them, and you give attribution." I imagine that this was done to get the maximum amount of exposure, while preventing some guy from making money off of it.--Shizzy9989 (talk) 03:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Medical Condition Updates

I removed the most recent edit regarding the recent lung and lymph node metastasis because it doesn't seem relevant to randy Pausch's bio, which is what this entry is about. More detailed, recent information about the professor's medical condition can be found on his website.

Current life expectancy?

Anyone know? Morbidly curious, I guess. He's now lasted longer than the old 3 - 6 month estimate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Porchcloth (talk • contribs) 04:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC) Does anyone know if he is still alive? I really hope he is. He is a positive great guy! Be Tigger not Eeyour. >

On the ABC special last night, they played a portion that had been filmed on 4/3/08. He was on camera and looked alert and mobile, but apparently his kidneys are shutting down and you could tell it was having an effect on him. He is still alive as of today's date, which is a great achievement as he's exceeded expectations. 64.73.35.238 (talk) 13:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

He's doing as good as could be hoped for... check http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/ for occasional updates. Kevin143 (talk) 06:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

External links

Creating a different links section since the one above deals with the origins of a lot of the links rather than the over all amount. I've added the {{Too many links}} template because there is a ridiculous amount of links there. There 17 separate bulleted points and quite a few links within those (31). If somebody could get around to culling the I think the article would benefit not to mention go along with external links guideline of keeping links to a minimum. --ImmortalGoddezz 20:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Nearly two-thirds are due to Gabriel Robins and seem little more than self-promotion for Robins, as his prominently-displayed picture, contact information, and CV overwhelm the Pausch-related content. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 20:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I tried to trim these. Thank you.--70.109.223.188 (talk) 14:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Photos

We need to be sure that someone has secured permission from Randy to use these photos. Right now, they might be in danger of deletion for failure to have proper licensing. The licensing that he placed on the video (creative commons non-commercial) is incompatable with wikipedia, so maybe he doesn't want to release these photos. But we need to track that down.--Shizzy9989 (talk) 03:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ugly rumor?

At the risk of spreading an ugly rumor that I'd much rather see dispelled than circulated... I have no idea about the accuracy of this, but I saw this online: "Fox News is reporting that Randy Pausch, famous for his "Dying Professor" lecture that became an Internet sensation has been arrested and charged with fraud by deception having never been diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer." After a search of Google News and FoxNews.com, I found no such reference. Does anyone have a link confirming or denying this? [MRC] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.134.180 (talk) 04:51, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

That's not even worth dignifying with a refutation. MMetro (talk) 23:13, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

That's bullshit. I know enough people at that college to know that Randy Pausch is an excellent man, and his condition is very real. Coolgamer (talk) 16:31, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Who would dare say differently? Paul Beardsell (talk) 02:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

If it was ACTUALLY out there, it'd be out there, but it's not, and the only thing is whether or not this is enough of a blatant W:BLP violation to demand the rumor removed. MMetro (talk) 20:19, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I think W:BLP allows you to remove the rumour and this section. Paul Beardsell (talk) 01:49, 6 May 2008 (UTC)