Talk:Donald Davies

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Article name

He's not known by his full name; in accordance with policy (Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) I moved this back to the name he's most commonly known by. Noel (talk) 05:24, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Nationality

I have updated the article to read the subject's nationality as 'British' followed by his being from Wales as that is his nationality, that is the standard template for Wikipedia, see Francis_Crick as an example (Crick is English but identified as 'British'.See also Tim Berners-Lee as another exampleTwobells (talk) 13:39, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

I notice his nationality had been changed back to Welsh. I've changed this back to British as per the above. Please leave it as British as that is his official nationality. Nigenet (talk) 09:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Interesting. Perhaps you could provide a link to the “official nationality” you claim he has. Though perhaps not, as I suspect you just made that up. I have checked every source cited on this article. None note him as British. Of those that do note his nationality, each one notes him as Welsh. In addition, the Science Museum specifically give his nationality as Welsh (under 'Key information'), which is probably as close as we will get to an 'official' source. I have just added information on the blue plaque unveiled in Treorchy. The source is The Independent, which describes him as a 'Welsh computing pioneer'. This page has been stable for well over a year noting his nationality as Welsh. Please read WP:UKNATIONALS. I have reinstated Davies' nationality as Welsh; the stable, and WP:RS cited version. Daicaregos (talk) 16:41, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Teddington

Teddington is not just outside London, being within it. 94.30.84.71 (talk) 12:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Don't tell that to someone who lives there. Mhkay (talk) 00:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Teddington used to be in Middlesex but the boundaries may have since changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 22:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Davies Work, Lawrence Roberts, and ARPANET

According to Davies page on Wikipedia, His work on the Mark 1 and 2 in the seventies influenced Scientist Lawrence Roberts and the creation of ARPANET

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_%28scientist%29

The wording of Davies page presents a conflict with Lawrence Roberts information, and the wikipedia page for ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

The wording of Davies page implies that ARPANET and Lawrence Roberts used Davies work after the mid 1970's

"At NPL Davies helped build a packet-switched network (Mark I). It was replaced with the Mark II in 1973, and remained in operation until 1986, influencing other research in the UK and Europe.[12] Larry Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States became aware of the idea, and built it into the ARPANET, another network precursor to the modern Internet.[7]"

When on Arpanets page, it was already established in 1969.

"The first permanent ARPANET link was established on 21 November 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the entire four-node network was established."

Perhaps rewording and additional research is required for all 3 of these pages, and the information within.

@brb 66.158.178.147 (talk) 11:02, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for flagging. This point has been clarified and supported by inline citations. It was Davies' work prior to the inaugural Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (at the start of October 1967, presented at the conference by his colleague Roger Scantlebury) that influenced Roberts and the ARPANET, although the NPL and ARPA/BBN teams continued to interact and the ARPA/BBN team followed the choice of computer hardware that Davies' team did, the Honeywell 516, to act as the packet switch. Whizz40 (talk) 09:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)