User talk:DougEwell

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Hello,…

Your name looks familiar. Are you one of the nine Unicoders behind the Terminals Working Group who proposed L2/19-025 regarding semi-graphics from character sets of long-forgotten home computers and Teletext?

Unlike BabelStone or Evertype (who have both userpages and biographies here and seem OK with that), you seem to be the only Unicoder here with a userpage but (maybe fortunately?) no (unauthorized or surprise) biography here (thus freeing you from any COI concerns). Or maybe is it that whoever did the bios of Andrew West and Michael Everson knows so little (or nothing) about you that, rather than researching more about you, chose instead to write about Ken Lunde (who does not seem to be amused by the idea of having his own article here)? (No, I did not start his bio page here — I only made fixes to it.) ​‑‑🌀⁠SilSinn^AL982100⁠💬 02:59, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

1. Yes, it's me. I wrote 99% of the body text and shepherded 7 iterations of the document through the committees. Most of the actual research was done by others.
2. I am good friends and a long-time collaborator with the author of Andrew's and Michael's articles. It doesn't trouble me at all whether I have my own article or not. If I did, it would surely be tagged by someone as "not notable" and deleted. Doug Ewell (talk) 21:37, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]