Talk:Ken Kennedy (Computer Scientist)

sorry about my clumsiness, or rather ignorance... How do I cause all of the "references/" to "" (that is, "(http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ken/")) to be collapsed? Currently, each of them is getting a separate entry under the " " section, but some of them are duplicates of each other! Mike Schwartz 10:56, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There are two useful pages discussing how to do this sort of thing, WP:REF and WP:FOOT.
 * For the collapsing, change to something like
 * For the multiple uses of the same reference, simply name the reference, e.g.
 * I hope this helps but if you've any questions, just ask.--Mendors 11:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

oops -even bigger issue: I just noticed that there is already a page about this guy, just with different capitalization (less? - (I think)) on the phrase "(computer scientist)". The two articles should be merged. I do not know how to do it. There is probably a small amount of info from the "new" article, that is not already in the "old" one. I hope someone will either do that merging, or else preserve (delay deletion of?) (or maybe, "back up" [in the sense of "create an archive copy]) the "new" article, until I - or someone - has had a chance to do the merging. Sorry.  and, Thanks. Mike Schwartz 11:32, 26 August 2007 (UTC)  revised a little bit Mike Schwartz 11:34, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Oops - OK, now I think I have copied all of the Ken Kennedy info (like, references) that I wanted to add, to the "old" article about him [the one with the lower case phrase "(computer scientist)", that is]. However, while I was doing that, someone was making more changes to THIS article!! Please stop doing so, so that the two articles can be merged (and one of them deleted!) thank you. PS: should I copy this to the ["new"] article itself? The one that is to be deleted? I think I will! If not, then this could go on even longer... Mike Schwartz 11:47, 26 August 2007 (UTC)  ...Never mind, now I see that the (appropriate!) kind of "to be merged" notice, has now been put on to the "new" article. THANK YOU! Mike Schwartz 11:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Just "FYI" this: "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Rice_University_people&diff=153728190&oldid=153716668" basically shows (the correction for) the problem, that led to having two pages in the first place. Thank you. Mike Schwartz 11:54, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've added the standard merge tags to both pages.
 * The addition of extra material was my actions in trying to show notability by referencing some non-Rice Uni web pages.
 * It should be this page which is deleted by changing the page to be a redirect to the enlarged page ( #REDIRECT Ken Kennedy (computer scientist) ). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mendors (talk • contribs) 11:56, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. One comment: I really enjoyed reading this: - just now on-line, although I think I also read it in Feb., when it came out in the print edition (which I subscribe to). I think it should probably be retained, and placed somewhere in the surviving article. Also (this should probably not be retained), while working on the "new" article (before I came across the "old" one) (the fact that the "old" one does exist) I read about Kennedy, and I found out that his first PhD student (Scott K Warren) was a guy I knew from math class at not only Bellaire HS, but even before that, John J Pershing Junior High in Houston. Thanks, Mike Schwartz 12:17, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

umm, shouldn't this page be archived now? Mike Schwartz (talk) 22:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)