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Was this written by RPG? It's full of all sorts of details that are very difficult to historically authenticate. (Almost got accepted to MIT and Harvard? As far as I know, all college admissions processes are designed to be totally opaque to the users.) I could ask Winston if the thing about his being offered a position at the AI lab is true, but I suppose it's not that important. This article just seems kind of fanboyish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saccade ( talk • contribs)
The result of the debate was move, explained below. — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 22:25, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Richard P. Gabriel → Richard Gabriel – There was a one-sentence stub at Richard Gabriel and this excellent biography at Richard P. Gabriel; the latter should be at Richard Gabriel and the stub at Richard S. Gabriel or Richard Gabriel (cricketeer) or suchlike. I started to do this, moving the stub to Richard S. Gabriel, then discovered to my chagrin that I couldn't move the biography onto where the redirect is... - Greg Price 07:54, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Is that how people who know him refer to him? I don't know him; but I've seen his name before, and I knew that "Richard Gabriel" was a certain Lisp hacker, founder of Lucid, and author of "Worse is Better", but never knew his middle initial. I'd certainly have looked under Richard Gabriel.
Doing a Google search, I find that everything RPG wrote says "Richard P. Gabriel" or his email address or initials, and nearly everything he didn't says "Richard Gabriel" (which makes sense since people are used to ignoring most people's middle names.)
So I think the conclusion is that the page should be titled Richard P. Gabriel, since that's what he calls himself; and since it's definitely true that most people looking for a "Richard Gabriel" will be looking for RPG (the alternative is a cricket player with a one-line stub created because someone wanted cricket players to have articles), Richard Gabriel can be a redirect, with a {{ dablink}} to Richard Gabriel (disambiguation).
I'll leave it for a day in case someone disagrees. Greg Price 21:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
In the computer community, people call him Dick Gabriel. In the poetry community, people call him Richard Gabriel. He publishes his poetry as Richard P. Gabriel. He signs his emails as rpg.
When someone broke up External links and References into two sections, they left Gabriel's poetry book under the references section which doesn't make any sense organizationally. So the poetry is now moved under external links though I still don't find this completely satisfactory. Ibar88 17:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)