Talk:Programmer

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Programmer article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help. Assume good faith Be polite and avoid personal attacks Be welcoming to newcomers Seek dispute resolution if needed Article policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1Auto-archiving period: 3 months

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This  level-5 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Computing Top‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. Occupations (inactive) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Occupations, a project which is currently considered to be inactive. Computer science Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computer science, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Computer science related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Things you can help WikiProject Computer science with: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet Cleanup : Computer science articles needing attention Computer science articles needing expert attention Copyedit : Computing Expand : Computer science Infobox : Computer science articles without infoboxes Maintain : Timeline of computing 2020–present Photo : Find pictures for the biographies of computer scientists (see List of computer scientists) Computing articles needing images Stubs : Computer science stubs Unreferenced : WikiProject Computer science/Unreferenced BLPs Project-related : Tag all relevant articles in Category:Computer science and sub-categories with {{WikiProject Computer science}} Engineering Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Engineering, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of engineering on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Technology This article is within the scope of WikiProject Technology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Systems High‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Systems, which collaborates on articles related to systems and systems science. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is not associated with a particular field. Fields are listed on the template page.

The content of Software developer was merged into Programmer on 12 May 2019. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that ___location, see its talk page.

Semi-protected edit request on 7 January 2025

Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

116.212.143.153 (talk) 06:50, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: Empty request Ultraodan (talk) 07:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 7 January 2025 (2)

Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

188.113.195.121 (talk) 09:49, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Ultraodan (talk) 09:52, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 10 February 2025

Latest comment: 6 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

←

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

103.166.41.76 (talk) 20:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 20:36, 10 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Men are erased

Latest comment: 21 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The only images in this article are all women. This erases men from the history of programming. This is a severe gender bias and misrepresentation. 2001:4C4E:24AF:5A00:EB5A:416D:DE81:CA5A (talk) 07:50, 10 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Obviously it is likely all the men in the world have been laid off, died off, retired, or have gone into other engineering fields with real jobs ;-). I also noticed there might be a tiny emphasis on convincing primary women and minorities that programming is a viable career choice while others types of people are pushed to the sidelines and this is what you may have noticed on WP. Take for instance, much AI training is currently done by mostly women in poorer countries around the world because of the deleterious nature of the work and lower wages. So yes, someone should put in the article an archive picture that showed men where programmers. Septagram (talk) 16:06, 10 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 22 August 2025

Latest comment: 9 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It is requested that an edit be made to the semi-protected article at Programmer. (edit · history · last · links · protection log) This template must be followed by a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y". The edit may be made by any autoconfirmed user. Remember to change the |answered=no parameter to "yes" when the request has been accepted, rejected or on hold awaiting user input. This is so that inactive or completed requests don't needlessly fill up the edit requests category. You may also wish to use the {{ESp}} template in the response. To request that a page be protected or unprotected, make a protection request.

2409:40E1:28:7BF1:8881:9FFF:FE80:E292 (talk) 15:46, 22 August 2025 (UTC)Reply