Talk:Khaled Mardam-Bey

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This article was nominated for deletion on 18 March 2015 (UTC). The result of the discussion was merge to mIRC.

As far as I know it took over the crown from WS_IRC, not WinIRC. As I recall, most Windows users typically used this before mIRC came around. Jgw 00:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Reading this page, I experience some sort of strange browser problem. When I look at the article page, خالد مردم بك appears without the initial خ which makes the name look like "الد مردم بك". However, if I mark the text using the cursor, the خ appears, and not as a separate letter but attached to the ا just like it's supposed to be. Is this a pure Firefox problem or some sort of Firefox+MediaWiki problem? - Tournesol 22:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update: using Firefox 1.5.0.4 it looks OK. Probably it was a problem in version ...0.2 or ...0.3 - Tournesol 18:28, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Right now in Arabic it reads Khaled Mardam-Bak. Any reason for this? Some Arabic spelling convention I don't know about? 131.94.169.120 (talk) 01:22, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The current picture needs to removed. It is nearly impossible to obtain a genuine image of Khaled, but the current image is just childish. MasterXC 20:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who was the idiot who redirected the article to mIRC? I'm gonna redirect Tom Anderson to MySpace then...... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.226.132.180 (talk) 01:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Khaled Mardam-Bey is of dubious notability, at best, so I'm proposing a merge. What do you guys think? Mythpage88 (talk) 20:13, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose a well known and influential programmer whom developed one of the most popular IRC chat programs in the early days of the Internet which has since been downloaded by tens of millions users world wide. In addition, In my opinion, the large amount of interwikis this article has should by itself partly indicate, the notability of this person. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 15:09, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notability is not inherited. Mythpage88 (talk) 01:03, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Don't really care either way. It seems he's widely known for one thing, but mIRC is a pretty big deal in terms of Internet history. This article could definitely use some more secondary sources though, as most of the references seem to be affiliated with the subject. --Jtalledo (talk) 15:23, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So what type of sources would satisfy you? Please be specific. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 18:48, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Satisfy me? Whoa there, buddy. It's not about me. WP:BLPSOURCES is pretty clear on this that you need reliable sources on these things. Since this fellow is involved in software, then obviously a reputable publication like PC World or PC Magazine, or a website like Ars Technica would suffice. You want this article to stay right? Then reliable secondary sources would only support the position that it is notable for its own article. But if you feel the tag is inappropriate, then feel free to remove it. No worries! --Jtalledo (talk) 20:34, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. I think that the reason I can't find a single extended interview with him online nowadays, on a reputable publication, is because Mardam-Bey's fame peaked at the early days of the Internet, and because of that it is much more harder to find these old interviews available for viewing online nowadays. Although I haven't found yet an extended article about Mardam-Bey in the sites you mentioned above, I'm sure there are enough reliable sources on the Internet that cover this topic, which would be good enough to be used in this article. Do you think that all the sources listed in the article are not good and should be removed? TheCuriousGnome (talk) 06:06, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Consequently, since 2004, Mardam-Bey distributed the software with an uncrippled evaluation license which after a 30-day evaluation period employs a nag screen that pops up on startup which urge the users to register so as to support the further development of mIRC" I don't know if there are any other long time users of mIRC here, but this has been there at least since 2000/2001 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.129.101.234 (talk) 15:10, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I clearly remember seeing the 30-day nag-screen as far back as the mid-90s. Dewdude (talk) 17:32, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]