Talk:Vint Cerf

message: The redirect should really be changed so that Vint Cerf bounces to Vinton Cerf, since the latter is his full name.
: Yes, but everyone in the world, but everyone, calls him "Vint". And Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) says we're supposed to use "the most common name of a person or thing". So having the article under "Vint Cerf" is exactly the right thing. Noel 02:44, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Ok my first edit ever, and boy was this a big one! I saw there was some confusion over whether Vint Cerf received the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award in 1995 or 1996. After some searching on the net I have come to the conclusion, the award was received in 1995.
In his Professional Curriculum Vitae, which can be found at his personal homepage (http://mci.com/cerfsup/), he mentions the following under the heading “Professional Memberships, Activities and Awards”: Softquad/Rubinsky Award, 1995. 
This by itself is enough proof to solely name the year 1995 and not to cause any confusion.
If more confirmation is needed I suggest the following location: http://www.gallupippi.com/content/default.aspx?CI=15757
Which mentions the following: "In 1995, he was awarded the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award."
Off course if absolute certainty is needed it is always possible to contact Vinton G. Cerf at:
http://global.mci.com/us/enterprise/insight/cerfs_up/contact/
I will also be changing the following Wikipedia article, which too fails to mention 1995 as the proper year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Rubinsky_Memorial_Award
I was unsure whether or not to add a reference as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources, then again the personal homepage itself is already mentioned. --Brucevdk 18:17, 16 July 2005
:I am not sure why any web sites, including Vint's, might state that he received the award in 1995. However, I can state with absolute certainty that he received the award at the Fifth WWW Conference in Paris in 1996. Yuri passed on Jan 21, 1996 and I handed out all of the awards that were subsequently given. See the wikipedia article on teh award itself. My name is Murray Maloney.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.54 (talk • contribs) 07:37, 22 January 2006
::That may be, but Bruce has sources that support his claim. However, your experience of actually handing out the award is original research and therefore doesn't count for anything. Go Wiki! Whooooo! Rufmeister (talk) 22:30, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion over the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award 

message: Can't this be changed to hard of hearing or deaf?
I am hard of hearing. Is there a preferred way to refer to this??  208.54.4.44 (talk) 23:20, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Hearing Impairment

message: Is there a reason why 'Twas the night before start-up and "Networks" are not italic like the rest? 
Just noted it but thought I might ask first
--Phisches (talk) 05:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting of bibliography section

message: Please don't use Dr Cerf all the time. It's policy to mention academic titles just once in a biographical section. Ben  T/C  09:05, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr Dr Dr 

message: I'm changing "St. St. Cyril" to "St. Cyril".  Please let me know if there is reason to think the former is correct.  Espertus (talk) 03:26, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Cyril 

message: I believe there should be more talk of his achievements and not just his awards. 121.8.101.163 (talk) 00:39, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Achievements? 

message: The Introductory material ends with the following paragraph:
:Cerf also went to the same high school as Jon Postel and Steve Crocker; he wrote the former's obituary. Both were also instrumental in the creation of the Internet as we know it (see articles).
What articles? Ileanadu (talk) 18:18, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: See Articles - What Articles?

message: Several IPs have added to this article a statement that Cerf is Jewish (or of Jewish origins); others have removed it. Since it's clearly disputed, I've removed it for the time being, but does anyone actually have a source to prove it one way or the other? (Even if it is cited, it doesn't necessarily belong in the lead; but if it can't be sourced, it definitely shouldn't be.) Robofish (talk) 14:00, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just the same person using different IPs, all of them edit the Bob Kahn article too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.231.4 (talk) 14:27, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It could be the same guy who called Alexander Graham Bell "...a jew and a eugenicist...".  Bell was actually 'Unitarian Agnostic', but he truly was a eugenyst in a positive sense, long before the nutbars and the Nazis decided that eugenics should include wholesale murder, torture, extermination, genocide and other assaults on humans such as sterilization.  He disassociated himself from the research when he saw the nasty direction it was starting to take.  HarryZilber (talk) 20:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know why he's so devoted to the arbitrary task of making Cerf Jewish, but it is unverifiable and a nuisance. He's reverted several user's edits about five times now. Surely it's become vandalism?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.231.4 (talk) 00:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish? 

message: A picture in this article, of a 1960s numberplate saying "Cerfs Up", has recently been removed with the edit summary "This isn't needed". I find no related discussion on this talk page, thus no consensus for the removal sought or achieved. This was arguably the only interesting picture in the article, it was certainly the only picture which caught my attention and it demonstrates that the subject has a sense of humour as well as being a genius who has helped change the world. Thus I propose that it be restored. Unfortunately I can't just revert this as a challenged bold edit because the picture has also been deleted. I request that the original editor User:Swatjester restore the previous state of the article and seek consensus for the change. --Mirokado (talk) 00:47, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I will decline. It was a BLP concern (which does not require consensus to remove), it was unencyclopedic, and the image added nothing of value to the article whatsoever. ⇒SWATJester Son of the Defender 01:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In that case I think you should have provided an clearer edit summary. I had also wondered about BLP when I first saw the picture, but thought that a 40-odd year old plate was probably no significant concern. I clearly don't agree with your other points but that I guess is life. --Mirokado (talk) 01:27, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of picture 

message: Dr. Cerf's bio box indicates he was born in London, United Kingdom and that his citizenship is United Kingdom (on a side note, I don't think it would be correct to state citizenship as "United Kingdom"; if anything, his citizenship would be "British"). However, in the Life and career section, it states he was born in New Haven, CT.
What is correct here?Everiverever (talk) 16:35, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace and Citizenship 

message: This edit changed Cerf's father's middle name from Thurston to Thruston. The one source says Thurston. I have reverted. Wwwhatsup (talk) 15:51, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father's name. 

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message: Have you guys watched the matrix reload? This guys looks so much like the architect. I wonder if the character's personality comes from him. Theanonymity.de (talk) 17:24, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  I feel like he is the inspiration for the character "The Architect" in the Matrix franchise. 

message: After the Certificate of Merit award in 1996, the list of awards changes a bit abruptly from putting the year at the end to putting it at the front. It should probably be formatted consistently, but I don't know whether the most logical approach is to put years at the beginning or end of the entries. I don't see anything in the Manual of Style indicating either way.
Baneonplane (talk) 02:52, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards and Honors formatting? 

message: It seems to me that the article grew a lot over the past years and got messy. I am going to restructure it (work in progress) on my user-subpage to offer you a well organized version. If you have advices or ideas please let me know.
(I am paid editor) Chrasjo (talk) 09:10, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organizing article