Talk:Hank Asher/Archives/2015

What the *&#@
This article may top the list of articles of dubious quality that exist in the recesses of Wikipedia.

This article reads like a not-so-up-an-coming scriptwriter's PA's second cousin's screenplay Miami Heat/Maverick Cop TV promo headed nowhere.

I read through the sources, of which the Vanity Fair article is the most substantive. While it is quite clear this guy has lead the life that we've come to expect of all programmers (Start software company, engage in multiple serious felonies south of the border, return to the states with new found wisdom), it is equally clear that at least 30% of the article material does not occur in any way shape or form in any of the sources.

Additionally, the term "Data Fusion" is not a widely recognized term, despite having a Wikipedia page. Alternatives could include data aggregation and a (possibly) corresponding technical term "recursive/self-join", although Hank Asher's work should probably be called "Colocation" of databases that were previously spread out.

Hank Asher is additionally described as being the inventor of a technology that can "plug in three zip codes and you'll see all the people who've lived there", needless to say Hank Asher was about 175 years late to the theoretical development of Georg Cantor's "On the Algebraic Properties of Shared Numbers" and about 15 years and thousands of miles away from the development of structured databases that had been doing this since before he was smuggling his way throughout the Caribbean.

Now I am hungry, I hope someone takes an interest in this page, however unlikely that may be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.222.15.23 (talk) 22:06, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * If you find claims not supported by sources, feel free to tag them with cite needed or if apparently referenced, failed verification tags. If you have refs which could improve the data fusion article, and tie it in to a longer history, please add them on that talk page or point them out on my talk page and I will attempt to incorporate them.Dialectric (talk) 20:32, 21 July 2015 (UTC)