There are 34 references in Michael Aldrich 17 are from the Archive 4 are from reputable broadsheets 3 are from peer reviewed publications 4 are UK Government reports 4 are books 1 is a City government website and 1 is a University Art Gallery The reverted edits fromOnline Shopping and Electronic Commerce which cover the four central claims have those references you quote The newspaper cuttings can be found in date order at Press Cuttings Aldrich Archive University of Brighton There are no paqe numbers In the Michael Aldrich article other references are also used There are three central claims he invented an online shopping system he actually claims to have invented online shopping which I left for peer review Thomson Holidays 1981 was the first recorded B2B and Gateshead SIS Tesco was the first B2C with the world s first recorded online shopper For the first claim I found 4 sources in the Press Cuttings plus of course Aldrich s own claims For the second there are also 4 sources one peer reviewed For the third there is a peer reviewed source and a TV interview by Lawrence McGinty an acclaimed UK science reporter broadcast on Independent Television News in the UK in 1984 In looking at the sources common sense is needed Aldrich s teleshopping systems received a very sceptical welcome HiFi systems were the big news in 1980 Many reports of his new system are wonderfully garbled and a little silly Few understood what he was talking about Online shopping did not exist I experimented with a 14 year old a fifteen year old and a 64 year old professor to test your objections to the references Apart from tidying they thought the references were more than adequate