Talk:Richard T. Russell

message: An editor has left a message at WP:Editor assistance/Requests#Richard T. Russell regarding the WP:COI tag. Here is my take on the referencing.
*Barry Collins, BBC Basic: the people's language,PC Pro, September 2006, pp140-141, ISSN 1355-4603
**This article (page two) says that Sophie Wilson wrote the original implementation of BBC Basic.
***BBC BASIC for Windows (BB4W) is not the same thing as BBC Basic. They are two different things. It is true that Sophie Wilson developed BBC Basic, but BB4W is entirely Richard T. Russell's brainchild. If you download the trial version you will see that it is a complete IDE and the language itself has been majorly revamped in order for it to interact with the Windows operating system. If you read page 3 of the same PC Pro article, you will find the following words: "...although many people haven't used it since the 1980s, BBC Basic didn't die with the Micro. Russell used his extensive knowledge of the BBC project and the processors of the time to create an IBM PC version of BBC Basic in 1986. And many years later, in 2001, he completed an 18-month project to code BBC Basic for Windows."
****Fair enough - I bel;ive taht there are still concerns with the ZX80 implementation cite
*Douglas J Mounter,The BBC BASIC (Z80) Reference Manual for the Z88, February 1989, 
**I have no access to this. AGF
*Doug Mounter and Richard Russell,BBC BASIC (Z80) Reference Manual for the Tatung Einstein, 1984, 
**I have no access to this. AGF
*John Coll, BBC Micro User Guide, British Broadcasting Corporation 1982, page 2, 
**This acknowledges help from Russell, no more.
*Carol Atack, From Atom to Arc, Acorn User, October 1988, ISSN 0263-7456
**Rusell produced the specification for the machine.
*Andy Finney, The BBC Domesday Project, 2007 (bottom of page)
**By a happy coincidence the engineer who organised the digital PAL decoding of the Domesday master tapes at BBC Research in Surrey and was also one of the designers of the Transform decoder - Richard Russell - was also closely involved in the development of the BBC Micro and of BBC BASIC in particular.
*Jim Easterbrook, The BBC transform PAL decoder, February 2008
**This is a personal website and thus doesn't meet the requirements of WP:RS. It does mention Russell's involvement in the PAL project. I have tagged it as dubious because it is not RS, please see WP:V#Self-published sources (online and paper)
*James Insell, From Videotape-based to File-based archives, DCC/LUCAS Workshop, December 2006, Frame 10
**This won't download fully to my machine. AGF
*Mark Nelson, Colour conundrums, Everyday Practical Electronics, September 2008, page 16, ISSN 0262-3617
**I have no access to this. AGF
*Charles Norton, Unscrambling an army of colours, The Guardian, 11 December 2008, page 3, ISSN 0261-3077
** Software to recover the colour from black-and-white television recordings was developed by Richard Russell, rather than James Insell, although the technology was Insell's brainchild.
*** So therefore this is a reliable source.
*BBC Two, The Story of Are You Being Served?, 01 January 2010
**I didn't check this as I don't have time at the moment to watch the programme via iPlayer and it won't be available for much longer. AGF
***You don't need to watch the whole thing. Skip forward to 54:00:00 and watch the last few minutes - you will see Richard Russell appear on the program talking about his work on the colour restoration for the pilot episode of "Are You Being Served?".
****It won't be available after 8 January, so it won't have any relevance after that.
*bb4w: BBC BASIC for Windows, BB4W Yahoo! Group, Yahoo! Groups
**This requires sign up. It doesn't actually say that he runs the group so is not that useful.
***If you sign up to it (as I have), you will see that he does run it.
****You miss the point, sign up internet groups like this are not RS.
Overall, I would say that better sourcing from WP:RS should be sought. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:55, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the COI tag