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There was article in the late 1960s in Time Magazine, that Yoyodyne was a bogus clandestine US Government company. Not sure which issue. How does one research incorporated companies by name and date of incorporation? 98.204.141.159 (talk) 23:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC) drbobscanoe@gmail.com 17 June 2015[reply]

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Possible help with sources (Keep)

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In the belief that this article should be kept, see this and this. Probably not WP:RS as is, but there are some interesting threads to unpick just the same. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 19:49, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced trivia

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I have removed the following examples from the article, per reasons / policies cited in the AFD. Also, WP:V, etc.

  • Tim Powers' fantasy novel Last Call mentions Yoyodyne as a company in the Los Angeles area that "manufactures ... stuff".
  • In the German miniature wargame Spacelords, House Yoyodyne is a faction with a culture almost identical to that of feudal Japan.
  • In Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg, a fictional tape drive manufactured by Yoyodyne Systems is mentioned in passing as an example ("a Foobar model 37 computer, and we're trying to hook up a Yoyodyne tape to it").
  • A company named Yoyodyne is briefly mentioned in the HBO series Silicon Valley as a nod to the GNU General Public License. It appears to be a technology enterprise of some sort located in San Francisco.
  • In the novel Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams, Yoyodyne is the parent company of the manufacturer of a fictional type of computer core made of liquid crystal.
  • The 1990 film The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter used the name Yoyodyne Corp. on a spray-paint can label, wished for by the main character.

Many technical works, such as Cricket Liu's DNS and BIND (O'Reilly), Per Cederqvist's Version Management with CVS, Jesse Vincent's RT Essentials (O'Reilly), and the GNU General Public License version 2 use Yoyodyne as a company name in their examples. The Internet domain name www.yoyodyne.com was allocated by Internet software designer TGV Inc. as a "fake" domain name for use in DNS configuration examples. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:13, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Proper use of "non-primary source needed" [non-primary source needed]

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I believe editor Siroxo, on October 9, 2023 added two [non-primary source needed] tags. And it was later dated in Feb 2024. But this is a misunderstanding of the use of such tags. If the notability of the subject was in question (which it has been in the past) non-primary sources would have been useful. For example, in the notability of Pynchon's book, or use of the name within the book, the book itself would not be adequate as a primary source, various critic's mention of such provides the secondary sources. The deleted tags in question, however, are on outside sources giving evidence for further notability of the subject, and therefore primary sources for these are fine. The notability for the GNU license is not in question.

The notability of this in an article about "GNU licenses" would need secondary sources. But in this article, it is itself a secondary source in relation to the subject of the article "Yoyodyne". It does not need a secondary source itself to cite what already amounts to a secondary source. To tag it is overenthusiastic editing. 2600:100E:A020:E0F8:FFBE:B34:5DF1:7DEE (talk) 17:18, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy with removing the {{primary source inline}} tag as it seems I may have misused it. However the article would indeed benefit from a secondary source for each separate item in the legacy and influence section, lest we as editors end up exercising our judgement on what should be included, rather than relying on secondary sources to make that call. I personally agree that the GPL info is worth including, but it would benefit the article if a RS did as well. —siroχo 08:08, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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