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If I recall correctly, Poulsen never actually received ownership of a Porsche, because he failed to realize that the people at the station might notice that all 102 callers had the voice of the same kid, so I've added a CN tag to the incident. The event definitely happened, I remember it being a topic of discussion among other like-minded people who lived in the city of Camarillo, but the way it reads on the page now strongly implies he actually got the car, and I remember this event being brought up as one of the examples of how raw greed often results in a persons downfall when it comes to this sort of thing... Zaphraud ( talk) 19:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
The placement and odd wording of this sentence suggests that he himself posted these gifs, when in fact he condemns it. what exactly is the point of this sentence anyway? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.255.201.211 ( talk) 18:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to suggest that the flashing GIF sentence, which has returned, might benefit from review. The reference seems meant to highlight my use of the word "hackers" in the headline of a 2008 article I wrote about the epilepsy forum attack. I suspect the contributor believes the headline was inapt, and thus provides some unstated encyclopedic insight on my character. But the current placement and phrasing could easily mislead a reader into thinking I staged the attack, rather than reporting on it. Klpoulsen ( talk) 19:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
First of why I did a double undo: I have once again removed the name of the person mentioned in the linked article, as it is my opinion that the exclusion is the conservative solution to this. An inclusion should follow if we can reach some understanding to why it should be included. His name is easily available for an interested person, either through the linked article, or through these logs, which clearly indicates what happened "Avoid mentioning names", so the exclusion is not particularly effective at hiding his name either. It is a paradox that writing this text might even emphasize it further.
The reason for doing it in the first place: We should avoid mentioning names of people which are not notable. The mentioning of the name neither adds to the article, nor is the person himself particularly notable. If he was, we should be able to create an article about him. I agree that it is interesting that Poulsen contributed to the apprehension, and that passage is kept intact. It disturbs me however that we put a name of a third party here without any necessity. Think about it as an extra-marital affair, if we found for some reason the extramarital affair of someone to be "newsworthy", would we necessarily mention the name of whom he/she did it with? - If the question is yes, then it should be included, otherwise no.
Conclusion, in lack of knowledge of more specific policies, I suggest the non-notable rule should apply here. Bfg ( talk) 12:49, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Kevin along with Adrian Lamo revealed Bradley Manning as being the potential source of the Wikileaks released Collateral murder video. It calls journalist ethics into question revealing sources. -- 94.194.60.19 ( talk) 00:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
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How do we go about describing his recently published article on The Daily Beast? FunksBrother ( talk) 01:21, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
According to an update on Unsolved Mysteries (Season 3, Episode 4, 45:32), after his time in prison, he "created a program for law enforcement officials that located over 700 registered sex offenders." This seems to conflict with the information currently in the article.-- WizWheatly ( ftaghn) 20:07, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
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If I recall correctly, Poulsen never actually received ownership of a Porsche, because he failed to realize that the people at the station might notice that all 102 callers had the voice of the same kid, so I've added a CN tag to the incident. The event definitely happened, I remember it being a topic of discussion among other like-minded people who lived in the city of Camarillo, but the way it reads on the page now strongly implies he actually got the car, and I remember this event being brought up as one of the examples of how raw greed often results in a persons downfall when it comes to this sort of thing... Zaphraud ( talk) 19:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
The placement and odd wording of this sentence suggests that he himself posted these gifs, when in fact he condemns it. what exactly is the point of this sentence anyway? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.255.201.211 ( talk) 18:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to suggest that the flashing GIF sentence, which has returned, might benefit from review. The reference seems meant to highlight my use of the word "hackers" in the headline of a 2008 article I wrote about the epilepsy forum attack. I suspect the contributor believes the headline was inapt, and thus provides some unstated encyclopedic insight on my character. But the current placement and phrasing could easily mislead a reader into thinking I staged the attack, rather than reporting on it. Klpoulsen ( talk) 19:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
First of why I did a double undo: I have once again removed the name of the person mentioned in the linked article, as it is my opinion that the exclusion is the conservative solution to this. An inclusion should follow if we can reach some understanding to why it should be included. His name is easily available for an interested person, either through the linked article, or through these logs, which clearly indicates what happened "Avoid mentioning names", so the exclusion is not particularly effective at hiding his name either. It is a paradox that writing this text might even emphasize it further.
The reason for doing it in the first place: We should avoid mentioning names of people which are not notable. The mentioning of the name neither adds to the article, nor is the person himself particularly notable. If he was, we should be able to create an article about him. I agree that it is interesting that Poulsen contributed to the apprehension, and that passage is kept intact. It disturbs me however that we put a name of a third party here without any necessity. Think about it as an extra-marital affair, if we found for some reason the extramarital affair of someone to be "newsworthy", would we necessarily mention the name of whom he/she did it with? - If the question is yes, then it should be included, otherwise no.
Conclusion, in lack of knowledge of more specific policies, I suggest the non-notable rule should apply here. Bfg ( talk) 12:49, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Kevin along with Adrian Lamo revealed Bradley Manning as being the potential source of the Wikileaks released Collateral murder video. It calls journalist ethics into question revealing sources. -- 94.194.60.19 ( talk) 00:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
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How do we go about describing his recently published article on The Daily Beast? FunksBrother ( talk) 01:21, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
According to an update on Unsolved Mysteries (Season 3, Episode 4, 45:32), after his time in prison, he "created a program for law enforcement officials that located over 700 registered sex offenders." This seems to conflict with the information currently in the article.-- WizWheatly ( ftaghn) 20:07, 30 October 2022 (UTC)