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I think the Slashdot submission is not so important for external link. There are articles on the Web more deserving it. Pavel Vozenilek 23:53, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The Best of Verity Stob was recently reviewed on Slashdot but gained litte interest with only 101 comments. Few recognised the pseudonym so it is safe to conclude the demographics have only little overlap. The review itself was very brief, did not even list chapters.

Also I think now ALL articles, including VS require subscription, w/o any exception. Before some were available freely but it stopped. Pavel Vozenilek

While the Slashdot submission might not be important to some it is a free original article by Verity Stob and also shows she works in more venues than those listed (EXE, DDJ, Register). Moreover that submission shows her email address at DDJ. If there are more deserving articles, why not add them to the list? Also I rechecked and some of her older articles on DDJ are still free; refer for instance to [1]. Looking closer only those marked with a yellow star (or a premium bluuet as DDJ calls it) require subscription. It has been speculated that Verity Stob is an acronym. I have resolved some possibilities but Googling for them reveals no results. She remains pseudonymous and successfully so. 80.212.62.97 19:18, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I see that Verity Stob has an older sister pseudonymed "Parity Stob". Should we add this to the article? 85.164.64.40 19:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is likely literal joke. Pavel Vozenilek 18:38, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sure? Some links listed in the article states Party is her older sister. Update: found in [2] : Email? Google again, I'm afraid. I use Gmail. Marvellous. Incidentally, if any of your 400,000 readers wants an invite on to the beta programme, I still have one left. If my sister Parity doesn't want it. At least she claims she has a sister.

Well, who knows. Even that I think it is irrelevant for Wikipedia. Pavel Vozenilek 19:42, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A recent addition The name 'Verity' of was chosen in honour of Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who, but she denies the rumours put about by some of her former editors that her surname is a contraction of 'STOp Bit' (because the column used to run as the last article in .EXE Magazine). While very intersting and plausible I cannot see any references to this. Google does not turn up anything. Links?

Whoever tagged the article...

...has been spotted! WikiuserNI (talk) 16:48, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Verity is notable

Any author who chooses to use a pseudonym is at a disadvantage when Wikipedia editors try to evaluate "notability". There is only the writing. The article can't say anything about the life the author chooses to keep to herself. In this case, the writing is quite notable enough, thank you.

Verity is that rare thing, a literate programmer, and I don't mean that in the Knuth sense. What's more, she's funny, quite a feat when so much of her work is about programming.

My favourite is her piece on Abigail's Windows 7 launch party. No wait, it's the spoof of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, which is about Ubuntu of course. I could go on.

She has earned her place in Wikipedia. Paul Foxworthy (talk) 10:51, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

+1. Hands off Verity! Mr Larrington (talk) 11:26, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The PHPers are (gunning?) after her [3]! FuFoFuEd (talk) 05:44, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Verity Stob's identity

How can he/she have been writing anonymously in multiple publications since 1988 without being unmasked? Surely some industry folks know. Wikipedia should include his/her real name, birthdate, etc. 82.113.133.21 (talk) 16:47, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Bump," as the kids say on forums these days. Yep I'm the same person as the IP above. 86.184.161.129 (talk) 23:49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh come on, it's not that hard to find. Check the editors of "The Best of Verity Stob" at Springer... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.243.100.168 (talk) 20:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Put it in the article then. Or is there some gender deadnaming reason why we can't? 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:1C70:32C3:655E:8834 (talk) 18:15, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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