Talk:Tom Cross (computer security)

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Notability

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Agreed. There is nothing to assert notability on this page.

Spatulacity (talk) 09:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Notability (Redux)

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)[reply]

EFGA's Notability

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)[reply]

Redirect on Tom Cross

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)[reply]

Just make Tom Cross into a disambiguation page. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 01:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I turned Tom Cross into a disambiguation page. How's that? —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 01:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tqbf (talk • contribs) 01:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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