Talk:Tom Cross (computer security)

message: Though I know Cross, and created this article, on second thought there is not really enough here to make a solid claim for notability per Wikipedia:Notability (people).  Yes, he has written some well-thought-out blog posts, but is that sufficient?  He's not mentioned in the press, he has no publications in widely-circulated periodicals.  He *has* founded a few small organizations, including one that had some impact in a political matter, and he is well-known in the hacker community in the southeastern United States, but those probably are not strong enough to meet Wikipedia guidelines.  So, I am probably going to nominate this article for deletion.  Does anyone else have an opinion? --Elonka 17:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree at least to the extent that I can't see any valid reason to keep him on the same list with Bellovin or Bernstein, so I kicked him out of the Computer security specialists category. --Ministry of Truth 21:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

text: He is well known among the hacker community, I saw him on TV twice in regards to virus scares. You seem to have the process reversed, his well-thought out blog posts are a result of his experience and expertise. What makes him notable is the CyberAngel software, and its ability to have stolen hardware traced successfully.  He is also a published author for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). If you have ever lost a laptop, his software is quite notable. If you never had a compute stolen, or heard reports of machines returned then so what?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.247.181 (talk) 18:33, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: This page barely even asserts notability, let alone makes a case for it. Notable subjects have indepedent secondary source verification. Can someone find some for this subject? If not, I'll pitch in and AfD the page.
Tqbf 00:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability (Redux) 

message: As with all this stuff, the notability problems spider gangrenously through the WP: not to take anything away from Cross, but why is EFGA notable? There's a WP stub, and a parked domain. There are plenty of press "mentions" because EFGA was attached to a major action by the ACLU, but nothing outside that, meaning that none of those mentions have substantial reliable secondary source coverage.
Co-founding a dubiously notable group does not make this person notable. Reliable secondary source coverage does. Want to remove the notability tag? Find reliable secondary sources that cite this person.
--- tqbf 23:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  EFGA's Notability 

message: Ridiculous. Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross, with hundreds of press hits, is secondary hit on the name Tom Cross? Somebody defend this, or I'm going to reverse the Tom Crosses. 
--- tqbf 23:44, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just make Tom Cross into a disambiguation page. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I turned Tom Cross into a disambiguation page. How's that? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tqbf (talk • contribs) 01:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect on Tom Cross 

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