Talk:Steve Gibson (computer programmer): Difference between revisions

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*'''Comment'''. Possibly applicable parenthetical qualifiers may be consulted among those used for the entries under parent [[:Category:Computer scientists by field of research]] as well as under [[:Category:Software engineers]] and [[:Category:American computer programmers]], which lists a considerable number of those disambiguated as either "(computer programmer)" or simply "(programmer)".&nbsp;—[[User:Roman Spinner|'''Roman Spinner''']] <small>[[User talk:Roman Spinner|(talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Roman Spinner|contribs)]]</small> 05:39, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

** I'm all for improvement of consistency. Talking from a position of no particular expertise, I think that an "engineer" has built things, and a "programmer" just used keyboards (but allow for connecting wired, or punching holes). I'm also all for having parenthetical disambiguators, which are title, match the lede description. --[[User:SmokeyJoe|SmokeyJoe]] ([[User talk:SmokeyJoe|talk]]) 06:21, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

** I have no real objection to [[:Steve Gibson (software engineer)]]. While it's not more WP:CONCISE it is certainly more [[WP:PRECISE]]. My only quibble would be that Gibson is most notable to the typical reader for programs he or his company have created. But a counter would be that the RS, which really determine notability, are often more interested in his other work. Given the breadth of that work, we could almost go with [[:Steve Gibson (technologist)]], which gains concision at the cost of precision. I don't really care, as long as we don't use "computer programmer" which is redundant ("programmer" isn't regularly used in contemporary English in any other sense, even television program[me] management, government program[me] administration, etc.). <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — [[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''']] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] 😼 </span> 10:30, 13 March 2021 (UTC)