Talk:BIFF (Usenet)

message: I've done a major overhaul. Key points:
* content upgrade: de-vandalisation, references, details, restructure, rewriting
* moved from B1FF to BIFF: B1FF was only much later and only occasionally used for BIFF.
* consequent shufflings of various existing redirects, various accidentally related articles' cross-references, and the disambiguation
* ideally biff, b1ff, and BIFF should probably all have trailing clarifications, eg biff (email), b1ff (language), BIFF (caricature)
* i have deleted the tags calling for content review and additional references, since that's what i've done. please whack them back in if you think the result warrants it. bear in mind that due to the adumbral state of the net when BIFF was around and the jokey reputation of the net at the time discouraging academic study, hardcopy references are extremely thin on the ground. perhaps non-existent.
Saltation (talk) 23:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  major overhaul 

message: The line "BIFF was apparently a pre-adolescent American who had no real computer skills (or social skills)" is an example of the kind of language being used in this article that kills its neutrality. Parts of it read more like the stuff you'd see in joke wikis documenting drama on the internet. The article is worth having, but definitely needs a clean up. I'm not familiar enough with this person to take that on, however.
198.166.32.75 (talk) 05:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this article is terrible. An hour or so back I removed some of its worst parts but it's still terrible. -- Hoary (talk) 13:03, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  revision needed 

message: He too was depicted as a complete idiot. Personally, I had always thought it was taken from that movie. But maybe it's got both influences (film and this R. Sexton stuff). -andy 77.191.205.168 (talk) 01:52, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quite analogous to "Biff" in "Back To The Future", eh? 

message: I believe that this article, B1ff should be merged with BIFF. There is a lot of overlap and the B1ff article is very short text-wise. As an additional note, B1ff has no citations, doesn't seem like it could get citations and probably isn't even that notable, and is getting a bit of vandalism here and there. Also, the BIFF article isn't that long. It can handle another paragraph, if one is even going to be added. Kingsocarso (talk) 00:59, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say "no" - B1ff is the name for a character substitution system where you replace 1 with "i", 3 with "e", etc. B1FF is a b1ff of BIFF. BIFF is a pseudonym for a usenet newbie. Two different things. --Marc Kupper|talk 20:42, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Proposal 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 12:48, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: BIFF →  – The acronym or initialism has many uses, and this one seems very minor, old, poorly cited and with few pageviews. It doesn't seem to be even mentioned in the Usenet article, but I don't have any more time to investigate further. I'm just suggesting moving and redirecting BIFF to Biff, which is the DAB page. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 12:30, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 September 2022