This article was nominated fordeletion on 13 January 2013 (UTC). The result ofthe discussion wasno consensus.

This article is ratedStart-class on Wikipedia'scontent assessment scale. It is of interest to the followingWikiProjects:

Biography This article is within the scope ofWikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited tojoin the project andcontribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to thedocumentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography Computer security:ComputingLow‑importance This article is within the scope ofWikiProject Computer security, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage ofcomputer security on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can jointhe discussion and see a list of open tasks.Computer securityWikipedia:WikiProject Computer securityTemplate:WikiProject Computer securityComputer security Low This article has been rated asLow-importance on theproject's importance scale. This article is supported byWikiProject Computing (assessed asLow-importance). Things you can helpWikiProject Computer security with: Article alerts are available, updated byAAlertBot.More information... Review importance and quality of existing articles Identify categories related to Computer Security Tag related articles Identify articles for creation (see also:Article requests) Identify articles for improvement Create the Project Navigation Box including lists of adopted articles, requested articles, reviewed articles, etc. Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.

Though I know Cross, and created this article, on second thought there is not really enough here to make a solid claim for notability perWikipedia:Notability (people). Yes, he has written some well-thought-out blog posts, but is that sufficient? He's not mentioned in the press, he has no publications in widely-circulated periodicals. He *has* founded a few small organizations, including one that had some impact in a political matter, and he is well-known in the hacker community in the southeastern United States, but those probably are not strong enough to meet Wikipedia guidelines. So, I am probably going to nominate this article for deletion. Does anyone else have an opinion? --Elonka17:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree at least to the extent that I can't see any valid reason to keep him on the same list with Bellovin or Bernstein, so I kicked him out of the Computer security specialists category. --Ministry of Truth21:30, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. There is nothing to assert notability on this page.

Spatulacity (talk)09:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He is well known among the hacker community, I saw him on TV twice in regards to virus scares. You seem to have the process reversed, his well-thought out blog posts are a result of his experience and expertise. What makes him notable is the CyberAngel software, and its ability to have stolen hardware traced successfully. He is also a published author for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). If you have ever lost a laptop, his software is quite notable. If you never had a compute stolen, or heard reports of machines returned then so what?— Precedingunsigned comment added by24.4.247.181 (talk)18:33, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This page barely even asserts notability, let alone makes a case for it. Notable subjects have indepedent secondary source verification. Can someone find some for this subject? If not, I'll pitch in and AfD the page.

Tqbf00:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As with all this stuff, the notability problems spider gangrenously through the WP: not to take anything away from Cross, but why is EFGA notable? There's a WP stub, and a parked domain. There are plenty of press "mentions" because EFGA was attached to a major action by the ACLU, but nothing outside that, meaning that none of those mentions havesubstantial reliable secondary source coverage.

Co-founding a dubiously notable group does not make this person notable. Reliable secondary source coverage does. Want to remove the notability tag?Find reliable secondary sources that cite this person.

--- tqbf23:42, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ridiculous. Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross, withhundreds of press hits, issecondary hit on the name Tom Cross? Somebody defend this, or I'm going to reverse the Tom Crosses.

--- tqbf23:44, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just makeTom Cross into a disambiguation page. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs)01:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I turnedTom Cross into a disambiguation page. How's that? —Disavian (^talk/_contribs)01:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!—Precedingunsigned comment added byTqbf (talk •contribs)01:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link onTom Cross (computer security). Please take a moment to reviewmy edit. If necessary, add{{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add{{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archivehttps://web.archive.org/20070915103632/http://www.itoc.usma.edu:80/workshop/2007/Program/Speakers/Cross.htm tohttp://www.itoc.usma.edu/Workshop/2007/Program/Speakers/Cross.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set thechecked parameter below totrue to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018.After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored byInternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other thanregular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editorshave permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see theRfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template{{source check}}(last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them withthis tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them withthis tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online}10:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Biography articles of living people
• Start-Class biography articles
• WikiProject Biography articles
• Start-Class Computer security articles
• Low-importance Computer security articles
• Start-Class Computer security articles of Low-importance
• Start-Class Computing articles
• Low-importance Computing articles
• All Computing articles
• All Computer security articles

• Noindexed pages