Talk:Cliff Figallo

Notability
Cliff Figallo referenced on the following pages in Katie Hafner's book The Well: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (see article references for full citation): pages 42i, 46i, 54i, community building 55-56, on Deadheads 50-51, electronic communitarian 160-161, hiring of 31, 40-41, Mandel incident 86, 88, 101, posts 89, 111, at Salon 155, 169, Salon departure 174, on Well community 52, 84-85, Well director 53, 69, 106-107, Well departure 110-111.

In Howard Rheingold's book The Virtual Community: and Electronic Frontier Foundation 258, as Well director 28, 41, 43.

In Fred Turner's book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: 146-148, 277n1

Figallo wrote two books and an academic article on managing online communities, and was part of a 1994 panel on managing "deviant behavior" in online communities at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). He helped found the WELL, an early virtual community, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the first organizations to lobby for free speech online, both of which organizations are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles. His opinions are relevant to current debates about moderating speech on social media. Oldgirlpop (talk) 19:21, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * I have also found and added a reference from 2012 to "the Figallo effect." Oldgirlpop (talk) 20:17, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

A week has passed without further comment or editing on this article, so I believe I can assume “silent consensus” has been reached that Cliff Figallo meets Wikipedia’s standards for notability. Specifically:

A. People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject, AND

B. The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in a specific field. Oldgirlpop (talk) 17:39, 26 January 2023 (UTC)