Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Thomas Hatcher

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Thomas Hatcher was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

Seems bogus. Gzornenplatz 01:22, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Even if not bogus, only 15 years old and well known for hosting parties relating to illegal explosives sounds non-notable to me -- Chris 73 Talk 01:48, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
• Not really NPOV is it? i think if we made it a little less biased towards illegalism, it is ok. Someone recently fixed the bogus link anyway, to the dude creating AMD. how stupid, i think it was just vandalism. my vote: Dont delete. i'll attempt to fix... Codywilson 03:11, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Joke, probably either by or at the expense of someone called Thomas Hatcher. The fix of the AMD claim consisted of claiming instead that he founded an organisation which, according to its web page, traces its origins back 130 years, and which provides software likely to be found in a school. I'd guess that is significant. Andrewa 03:21, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Dont delete. i've NPOVed it now re the explosive thing. i knew Thomas Hatcher, im a burnie resident and this is a serious article. dont know about his company though, and he definetely didn't found AMD. i know he did start a company of some sort... i'll find out. in meantime dont delete.
  • Please sign your votes, User:Iamalegend, otherwise they are likely to be ignored. Andrewa 05:03, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete: prank. User:Iamalegend and User:Codywilson have vandalized other articles [1] [2], aside from planting links back to this prank. Probably everything they've contributed (if indeed there's more than one person at work here) is trash. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:35, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Google says nada. --Golbez 06:56, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete -- Chuq 07:52, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Very strong Delete. He has a lot of other nonsense that needs to go as well. For example, no one has ever called ethanol "dicarbon hexahydro-monoxide", but he felt the need to make a redirect (which could just as well go to dimethyl ether). Can we just delete that or does it need to be listed too? Cool Hand Luke 08:43, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Comment: I have listed it. Good point about the isomer! No change of vote. Andrewa 22:00, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Aside from the uselessness of the article (yes, yes, delete it), I'd like to point out that the chemical name is wrong. Ethanol would be dicarbon pentahydro-hydroxide (because the 6th hydrogen is attached to the oxygen, not the carbon). DS 21:15, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Well why dont you just edit that out? put ethanol there instead. btw a useless redirect never hurt anyone, i mean its hardly as if its a common search is it. dicarbon hexahydro-monoxide. In fact i'll edit that out as we speak. Keep. Codywilson 10:55, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• KEEP. Please see Talk:Thomas Hatcher re the dicarbon hexahydromonoxide issue Codywilson 11:00, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I knew Thomas Hatcher when he was around, this article is accurate. Superstoves 11:07, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Retarded. -Randwicked 11:17, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete - It is sad that this young man died so tragically - if he even existed - but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a memorial. Famous computer expert - never heard of him. And what is this nonsense Notable for the fact that he only lived for 15 years, Hatcher started a company called Follett Software. That will be the Canadian company formed three years before he was born then. Jll 11:45, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Comment: Superstoves and Codywilson appear to be mates of Iamalegend, they have made minimal edits but have all contributed to this article, Burnie High School, Neville Windsor, and the made up (since reverted) parts of Hellyer College. They are probably all students at one of them. I suggest their votes be ignored, until Superstoves/Codywilson show us a scan of an article from The Advocate or something. -- Chuq 11:54, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete with due speed. To me, it's patent nonsense. _R_ 12:20, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Comment: I have just recently found this website and saw the commotion about the Thomas Hatcher issue. I thought i might mention that I taught Mr Hatcher mathematics at Burnie High School and when he was at the age of thirteen he asked me about 0^0 and we had long arguments about it. This i think sent him into his state of insanity which ended up in his unfortunate death. This article should be kept, not as a memorial article but an encyclopedic issue. - Mr John Patchett
  • Could you sign your comments please, mr Five cents 01? -- Chuq 12:47, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• LOL hate to say i told you so to all you dudes, but i told you so. Codywilson 12:40, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• DELETE. Worthless vanity cruft. And Codywilson is a sock puppet of User:Iamalegend. Pyrrhos 15:41, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Prank. — Gwalla | Talk 20:58, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. I agree with _R_ above: patent nonsense. Give us a link to his obituary with the relevant information in there and we'll consider keeping it. --Aponar Kestrel (talk) 22:03, 2004 Sep 30 (UTC)
• Delete. Mackensen 21:55, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Apparently his death was on the Advocate's front page. I'll be happy to check through archives at the local library if someone can supply a date, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen. --uvarov 06:31, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • Well the article says "15th of September 2004", so see what you can find from there. Still, apart from the fact he was local and a teenager, is it encyclopediac? BTW I searched the deaths notices on the Examiner site and got absolutely nothing, but then it might not have been listed in the Examiner. -- Chuq 07:46, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Comment: All sorts of scenarios possible, but assuming someone aged 15 by that name really died, it's still a prank and a particularly tasteless one. But if a 15 year old known substance abuser really drank himself to death, and if the perpetrators are of similar age as some evidence suggests, we shouldn't be too hard on them. It can't be an easy time. No change of vote.Andrewa 21:52, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. What a dork! Denni☯ 17:36, 2004 Oct 3 (UTC)

I have copies of The Advocate from the 16th and 18th of September, and the Sunday Tasmanian from the 19th. None of these mention any unfortunate incidents at a party, or a death even vaguealy resembling Thomas' (burning); no deaths under the name of Hatcher are listed, either. Thus, especially considering the apparent importance of this person, I have an extremely hard time believing this any longer. I will upload the images (to another web server with a link here, I haven't looked how to here) if people want but I don't have an A3 scanner and it wouldn't prove that much unless I did the entire paper. No change of vote - a definite Delete. --uvarov 06:45, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Troll at work here. Spank it and its sock-puppets. jni 09:43, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Del, not of verifiable notability.--Jerzy(t) 06:14, 2004 Oct 8 (UTC)

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