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Such a well written piece, on someone who sounds intriguing. I have never heard of the man, but anyone who designs typefaces is brilliant as far as I'm concerned. The piece is well timed and paced. Just long enough for an encyclopaedia entry. Some, I find go on much to long, but here the article says exactly what needs to be said and then is finished. Ten out of ten I say. Five gold stars. --Tapsell 20:41, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
The version on CoralCDN changes as the page changes, therefore linking to the CoralCDN version (nyud.net:8080 or :8090) only shows the geocities bandwidth used up version. Why not just link only to the CoralCDN version next month, or whenever geocities restarts the bandwidth allotment? Or is the version on archive.org better? Also There's like three versions on archive.org, would someone else figure out the diff, or add links to all the different versions, or link to his sig directly on google groups? Family Guy Guy 18:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Kibo is the nickname, username and e-mail address (kibo(AT)world.std.com or kibo(AT)kibo.com) of James Parry (b. July 13 1967), a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long .signature, and an uncanny, machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned (to "kiboze"). His exploits have gleaned him a multitude of enthusiasts, who celebrate him as the head deity of the joke pseudo-religion kibology, centered on the newsgroup alt.religion.kibology.
James Parry grew up and lived in Schenectady, New York before moving to Boston, Massachusetts about 1990, where he lives today. He initially was a Computer Engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, but when he moved to Boston attended Emerson College, where he studied videography and graphic design. At that time, he also worked as a typeface designer and for the world.std.com internet service provider, whose praises he sings on his website (in a rare moment where he is not being outrageously tongue-in-cheek). He has a great artistic eye for typeface and developed several fonts in use today.
Many assume his nickname is derived from the acronym KIBO, although Parry himself has repeatedly denied this. Another rumor has it being short for King Body, a pseudonym he very briefly used on computer forums as a freshman at RPI in the mid-1980's.
Kibo is a supertaster, and has prosopagnosia. He frequently dyes his hair, which as of late 2004 is bright orange. Kibo likes bacon, but greatly dislikes cheese.
Because silly as it is and sounds, all of this is true! There was even an article/interview in Wired magazine several years ago about it all.
I went to RPI the year and a half that Jim "Kibo" Parry went there and used to visit him in Boston a lot, that is how I was able to write all the stuff in the Wikipedia entry about his college days and quantify his work in type face design and with world.std.com (he may still work there, I've only corresponded with him very occasionally in the last 5 years or so). If you go to his website (since this was 7 years ago it is probably in a very obscure part) and look hard enough you will actually see a brief "tribute" section to my wedding which he attended; it is likely the only part of his weird and crazy website other than his world.std.com praising that isn't tongue-in-cheek and is actually serious. If you can't find it go to Google and type in the search "Happy Honeymoon Harry and Lisa" and it will come up. I am amazed to see that he is actually famous enough to be a Wikipedia entry but three cheers to him! Hairymon
He finally took off my "wedding" page. He had to do it very recently because my half-sister told me last month how she put my name in Google and was surprised to see that page come up. I think almost 8 years is long enough :-) hairymon 04:16, February 3, 2006 (UTC)
How is this pronounced then?! It could be bow as in "bow and arrow" or bow as in "bow to pressure"! I presume the former, but this needs clarifying Bobbis 14:02, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
While it was a wild ride paging through Kibo's signature file, what credible sources can corroborate the contents of this article? Specifically, how can one verify that Kibo is a supertaster? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:37, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I undid User:Cool Cat's moving the article from "Kibo" to "James Parry" for 3 reasons: 1)a look at "What links here" shows the relevent artlicles are linking to "Kibo" 2)In contexts he's well known for, I seldom if ever see him refered to as James Parry (though sometimes as James "Kibo" Parry is not uncommon). 3)There was no discussion of the move on the talk page. I'm certainly open to changes if someone sees a problem with the current title or article, but please explain moves if the reason isn't obvious, and in this case please discuss first, thanks -- Infrogmation 16:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I entered "Kibo" expecting to be linked to the Japanese Experiment Module going up on the current Space Shuttle mission, or at least some description of what the word meant in Japanese, or a disambiguation page. I certainly didn't expect to get this page. I think it would make a lot of sense to direct Kibo to the disambiguation page, rather than this one, or even directly to the JEM page (even though the Japanese Kibo is actually spelled with some fancy symbols like "ō").
Ignoring the whole AfD debate, I think it's mainly a bit of Usenet trivia that the majority of WP users are probably not going to be familiar with, or even particularly interested in learning about, and so making it the default page for "Kibo" is a bit silly.
For example, doing Google searches on "kibo space" returns about 190K results, and "kibo space station" about 68K results, while "kibo usenet" only returns about 19K results.
Perhaps the title, rather than being changed to James Parry (as much as that idea makes sense to me), could just be changed to Kibo (Usenet). I don't know what Wikipedia's policy is on these sort of things, I'm just a reader. --69.227.178.191 (talk) 10:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I nominate this... --66.82.9.82 09:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I nominate this, too - User: Cyberman
I also nominate this page as the dumbest on wikipedia. Rawk rawk rawk, you must be a usenet use that wishes he was old enough to actually be a part of the original usenetwork boborok. Yes, this page is dumb and should only be a small footnote in another webpage on wikipedia, it doesn't need it's own page. When articles that don't deserve their own page get a whole page to themselves, the page gets filled with bullshit that reads like a 12 year olds own geocities webpage JayKeaton 22:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Personally, I was amazed when I found out there was some guy who grepped ALL OF USENET and replied to any message mentioning his name. I would guess that anyone who started using the internet in the Google era might not appreciate how unusual this was 15 years ago -- and since that's the whole reason he gained notoriety, it probably deserves more emphasis.
He was very before his time Net-wise. As a fellow college freshman he introduced me to what was then Internet email....in September of 1985!!!--hairymon 19:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
This copy sounds *really* familiar. If we *did* lift it from JARGON; oughtn't we credit it? --Baylink 22:17, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I cut this from the article: "Some net historians could argue that many aspects of his site make him the first blogger, as he gave regular updates on himself on his site (albeit tongue-in-cheek most of the time) since the early 1990's."
Kibo's activity in the early 1990s was most notable on Usenet. He was not particularly early in establishing a personal webpage (I recall a good number of Kibologists had such before Kibo), and the site never was in blog form. It postdated robotwisdom by years. I don't know anyone who has seriously tried to stretch the definition of blogging to include Usenet postings. -- Infrogmation 14:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I tried to organize this a bit, to make it easier to read & edit. What do you all think? Mdotley 21:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Long-time Kibo watchers will probably recognize his 'decline' after the Wired article, the Joel Furr replacement-Kibo election, and other dramas, where I saw a lot of Kibologists gave up due to his increasing self-importance attitude becoming a problem for his writing-- harassing people for doing things that interfered with his real-world merchandising efforts, etc. Anyone have enough to write a critical section? --203.14.156.193 19:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the ((tone)) tag. Although the content is inherently somewhat lightweight, the tone reads fine to me. If someone disagrees, please provide concrete examples before (or at least when) adding the tag back. --Jtl 05:51, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
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How many instances are there of non-trivial coverage from reliable third party publications about this individual? Was there ever anything more than what was found in Wired? JBsupreme (talk) 19:12, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Whitehouse.gov launched in October 1994, making it unlikely that a press conference mentioning it occurred in March 1992. (I also wouldn't expect that the Bush White house would have said something so flippant in the midst of a losing election. I can see Stephanopoulos saying it a year or two later, though.) Not sure what to exclude from this section, since the only reference I found at all for this event is on Kibo's website —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrickbowman (talk • contribs) 02:23, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability First article I've ever seen that was obviously not needed for inclusion in the encyclopedia. I see it's been nominated for deletion prior and I think it's time to reconsider that action again. -- milsorgen 11:16, November 18 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.60.3.17 (talk) 18:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I agree with the person above me, this article really has no purpose on Wikipedia.
BlackbeltMage (talk) 13:46, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I strongly disagree. Anyone who doesn't see the need for this to be included is failing to be objective. . . it's as though someone proposed an article on Torquemada, and you nominated it for deletion because you think that the fact you've never heard of the Inquisition means it was only worthy of a footnote somewhere else.
Any cultural history of the Internet that doesn't include Kibo and Kibology is an incomplete and poor history indeed.
AtomDebris (talk) 17:38, 16 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.106.254 (talk)
Parry was an exceptionally prolific poster to Usenet for many years, and maintained a web presence after leaving college, etc. But what did he do after leaving college and what is he doing now? His website hasn't been updated since 2009, by the looks of it, and in any case he has clearly been much less of an online presence in recent years, compared to the old Usenet days. Beorhtwulf (talk) 22:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
One page on the website was last updated 27 July 2016. I can't see anything changed after that. http://www.kibo.com/links/useflink.shtml Cancerward (talk) 07:05, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
[Transcluded] from source page.GenQuest "Talk to Me"
Kibology is not independently notable. It is an obscure group that is best known for being James Parry's fan club. ―Susmuffin Talk 17:12, 29 July 2019 (UTC)