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IBM article

Hi Thegn. I have reverted your edits to the IBM article again. These look like original research to me. You'll need to cite sources to include this material in the article. Thanks, Gwernol 17:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have now done so. Almost every paragraph is sourced. Thegn 17:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have spent much of this weekend trying to clean up the dreadful prose of David Mercer, who seems to have included much of his self-pitying autobiography in the IBM article, without any sources at all.

The IBM article as a whole is a bit of a mess, still very long-winded where Mercer's text remains, and quite feeble in its coverage of the period after Mercer left (i.e. the late 1980s). I suspect there needs to be a separate wikipedia article on IBM's history. Thegn 18:00, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I tried accessing the site for the past 3 days and I kept getting a DNS error, so yes. Unless it comes back, it looks like it's gone for good. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, odometer) 19:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to say the site is back up and running. The site has been restored to the article. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, odometer) 22:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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