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CiaPan (talk) 21:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Does he have seven children or nine? The article contradicts itself. Mgolden (talk) 04:14, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The source bio says 7, so I removed the strange final sentence that said 9. Tom Ruen (talk) 04:29, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Seven. I’m his wife. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.248.68.241 (talk) 12:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"I’m sorry, I’m used to saying “naught”. I’ll try to say “zero”. (pause) No, I won’t try. You can all just learn to be naughty."

"Zero plus zero is naught, depending on what side of the Atlantic I'm on."

"The method of learning things is to work it out, you know, on scraps of paper, and then lose all those scraps of paper."

"Any large number is finite, and you can start thinking about it as 3."

"I started to think about the sum of games to learn more about Go. I now know a lot about sums of games—and still nothing about Go." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.7.224 (talk) 03:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Usually (as a summary of the (sourced) main text) the lead doesn't need any citations as all. The lead here is rather short and doesn't seem to contain anything controversial, so there seems really no need for the current citation extravaganza. Moreover all those citation may create the (superficial) impression for readers, there might be an issue with the article or dispute over content (the common cause for such massive citations in the lead).--Kmhkmh (talk) 07:24, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The article lists The Triangle Book as if it was published, but it wasn't. Some websites (sometimes referring to each other) indeed have pages for that book as if it existed and even provide ISBN, but, as explained here, it does not mean it really existed. Indeed, some websites claim that the book was published in 2004, but both Conway's 2015 biography Genius At Play by S. Roberts and a 2016 text The Triangle by Richard Guy say that The Triangle Book has not been published. --colt_browning (talk) 12:19, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• @Toploftical: --colt_browning (talk) 14:22, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to this Twitter thread by Colm Mulcahy, John Horton Conway has died. Does anyone have a better source? 70.172.136.61 (talk) 19:03, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• From the mathematical association: tweet. Apparently it was COVID-19 related. 24.60.203.99 (talk) 19:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  I am somewhat uncomfortable with sourcing his death to tweets exclusively, but if the Mathematical Association would've done their own fact-checking, that plus another organization might work. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:43, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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(Can wait until the news is reported to approve) 72.221.56.7 (talk) 21:11, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 21:15, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Thanks for the request; there'll be a sourcing discussion just above, and then I assume someone will enact this edit after that finishes. For now, we don't need to leave this one open. I don't doubt that there will be lots of eyes on the article and someone ready to make the edit. Enterprisey (talk!) 21:17, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]