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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Benjamin Mako Hill (talk | contribs) at 12:47, 6 July 2007 (Factual accuracy). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Notability of Stephen M. Cohen

Stephen M. Cohen is not notable enough to be the center of an independent biographical article. Unlike Gary Kremen, Cohen is publicly known only incidentally in connection with his (extremely significant, granted) involvement with the sex.com affair. The focus of all the references currently provided in the Cohen article is the sex.com affair rather than Cohen. None of the titles even mentions Cohen's name:

  • The Sordid Saga of Sex.com
  • Sex.com, drugs and a rocky road: Tracking down the millions owed after the theft of a tangled web domain
  • The Brutal Battle for Sex.com.
  • Sex.com thief faces justice after hiding out in Mexico for four years
  • Sex.com Takes Aim at Registrar
  • Sex.com thief released from prison: And his Mexican lawyer shot the same day
  • Appeals court upholds Sex.com ruling
  • Sex.com: A URL -- All Crime And No Sex

According to Wikipedia's Notability policy "All topics should meet a minimum threshold of notability for an article on that topic to be included in Wikipedia." The policy goes on to state: "A topic can fail to satisfy the criteria because, though it may be found in published works that are not simple directories and that are from sources that are independent of the subject, it is mentioned trivially rather than being an in-depth subject of the works. Information which is given only superficial treatment or which is tangentially mentioned in discussions surrounding the actual focus of a work, is not sufficient to build a full, sourced encyclopedia article that stands independent of the main subject." WP:N#Merging

Wikipedia's people's notability guideline states: "Trivial, or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability." WP:Notability (people)#Primary criterion for Notability of people. Itayb 14:18, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've just performed the merger. Itayb 21:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I really think this should be split back. I want to add information about Stephen M. Cohen's involvement of EarthStation 5 (he is reputed to have run that website). It seems ridiculous to have to link to the Sex.Com article to do this or to edit the Sex.Com article to add information about his involvement. The Sex.Com saga is simply not trivial or incidental coverage. mako (talk•contribs) 21:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's been most of a week with no response. With the new EarthStation 5, the reasons for doing this merge seem to have been unseated. I'm splitting the Stephen M. Cohen information back into its own article and adding addition information there about his role in EarthStation 5. mako (talk•contribs) 15:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Factual accuracy

There was a {{disputed}} tag on this page. I'm not sure if it referred to the discussion of Stephen M. Cohen above (which, IMHO, is now entirely resolved) but I could not find any information on what, in fact, was disputed. So I removed it. If you know what was disputed, please explain it on this page before adding the tag back. Thanks! —mako๛ 12:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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