Talk:Kenneth Eng

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We should probably note that Eng's YouTube missive has since been removed for Terms of Service violations. I'd really prefer to link it, but those are the breaks. (Edit: We should probably also link "2007 Virginia Tech massacre" to the "Virginia Tech massacre" article.) Workingonmygooglefu 16:20, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Considering the fact that there isn't a citation for the YouTube video (and its subsequent takedown), I'm just removing the line altogether. Here's the diff should anyone want to reintroduce it, after a citation has been found (which I'd be all for). EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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Ask and ye shalt receive, via magic of GoogleFu. Angry Asian Man made a small note of it. PoeTV has the opening frame and some viewer feedback from before it was removed. Here's a post on YellowWorld, an Asian-American forum where someone says he agrees with Eng. He doesn't explain much about what Eng actually said, though a blogger over at ProgressiveU says he does some laughing at the dead. John Brownlee over at Wired Blogs mentions in passing that the video contained "jubilant gloating over the Virginia Tech massacre, because 'an equal number of black and white people were killed'". I don't have editing privileges, but I think that's enough citation; I can go dig up more if it's really important. Workingonmygooglefu 01:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
I can't tell exactly what is being requested. It looks like there is not much discussion here - are there still disagreements that justify continued protection of the page? CMummert · talk 12:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I was just requesting a rollback of EVula's diff. Originally there was an editwar going on with some vandals, but I suspect now that YouTube has removed the video and a little time has gone by, it shouldn't be a problem. Could we request re-protection if it turns up again? Workingonmygooglefu 15:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Declined As this article is covered by WP:BLP, you cannot introduce negative information without a reliable source. All your sources are taken down or are blogs. —dgiestc 23:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
I did some further Googling and found Mike Cane's transcript, but he doesn't actually post the video and it is a blog, so I'll have to leave it at that for now. Thanks for taking the time to review, though.


{{editprotected}} I found a citation from Bewildering Stories for the falseness of his claim to being the youngest published sci-fi author in America. It might be useful. Mockingbus 05:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

This article is now unprotected. CMummert · talk 01:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I tried to clean up the latest edits by 71.175.42.106, but I'm really not sure that the information belongs here unless he actually publishes it. The speculation might be problematic on the same grounds as his Virginia Tech video on YouTube (until the Voice covered it). Mockingbus 11:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion & Salt?

Why didn't this get SALTed after it was deleted two previous times to keep it from coming back from the dead? Bad zombie entry! StrongPassword (talk) 09:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I think he's become significantly more notable in the meantime, considering the AsianWeek incident and other fallout. I haven't read the previous versions (they predate my beginning as a Wikipedian) but I expect that this incarnation is also much less hagiographic than the last. It certainly doesn't look like the sockpuppetry that Eng likes to post elsewhere.
Mockingbus (talk) 03:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)