Talk:Gerald Weinberg

Edits removed

I am fairly new to contributing to wikipedia. I am curious as to why me edits were removed. I know Jerry Weinberg, so I added a few recent items to the entry. DwayneP 22:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 Done info is moved in again ([1]). ----Erkan Yilmaz 08:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Detailled publication list

I removed the following detailled publication list from the article. I think such a list doesn't help give the audience an introduction. I think this article definetly deserves improvement. But not with lists like this. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:35, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Partial bibliography non-fiction

• PL/1 Programming Primer / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-07-069036-7
• PL/1 Programming: A Manual of Style / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-07-069026-X
• The Psychology of Computer Programming / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-442-29264-3
• The Psychology of Computer Programming / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-442-20764-6
• The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-42-0
• Handbook of Walkthroughs / Gerald M. Weinberg, Daniel P. Freedman ISBN 0-933950-39-X
• Handbook of Walkthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews. Third Edition. / Gerald M. Weinberg, Daniel P. Freedman ISBN 0-932633-19-6
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-49-8
• General Principles of Systems Design / Gerald M. Weinberg, Daniela Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-07-2
• Rethinking Systems Analysis and Design / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-08-0
• The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-01-3
• More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-52-8
• Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design / Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-13-7
• Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-solving Approach / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-02-1
• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is / Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-16-1
• Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking v. 1 / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-22-6
• Quality Software Management: First-order Measurement v. 2 / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-24-2
• Quality Software Management: Congruent Action v. 3 / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-28-5
• Quality Software Management: Anticipating Change v. 4 / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-32-3
• Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 0-932633-65-X
• What Did You Say? The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback / Edith Whitfield Seashore, Charles Seashore, Gerald M. Weinberg ISDN 0-965043-00-2
• Perfect Software and Other Illusions About Testing / Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN 978-0-932633-69-9

Partial bibliography fiction

• "The Aremac Project / Gerald M. Weinberg" ISBN 978-0-932633-70-5

Most of Gerald Weinberg's science-and-technology-based fiction can be found as eBooks at http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/eBOOKS.html, including:

• The Freshman Murders / Gerald M. Weinberg
• First Stringers, or Eyes that Do Not See / Gerald M. Weinberg
• Mistress of Molecules / Gerald M. Weinberg

'... publishing with Dorset House since 1970'

I don't know who added that information to the article, but as someone who worked at Yourdon Inc from 1979 till the early 1990s, I know that Dorset House was founded by the in-house staff of Yourdon Press right around 1983. I don't believe that Jerry could have moved over to Dorset House before then. --MaxHund (talk) 16:28, 13 August 2009 (UTC)````

I got that information from his linkedin page, see here. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 21:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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Incorrect facts

Two facts here are incorrect, based on information that Jerry Weinberg told to me. Because I don't yet have good independent sources to prove it, I've tagged them "citation needed".

• When Jerry started at IBM, he wasn't in the Federal Systems Division. He was an Applied Science Representative in San Francisco, then worked for Service Bureau Corporation (IBM spinoff) Los Angeles. Then he moved to the D.C. area to join the Federal Systems Division in 1959.

• Jerry started consulting with Ethnotech in 1969. He didn't started Weinberg & Weinberg until probably 1975, when Daniel Freedman took over as president of Ethnotech. The 1969 date for the start of Jerry's consulting career is often conflated with the start of Weinberg & Weinberg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faught (talk • contribs) 01:01, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Jerry not Gerald

Curious as to why why edit to include Jerry was reverted. I don’t know anyone who knew him who called him anything else. Ambitus (talk) 04:52, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ambitus: It was explained when it was reverted. See MOS:NICK. In short, "Jerry" is a common hypocorism for Gerald. No need to list it. Reverting again. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

See Jerry Seinfeld as an example. We could move the article to Jerry Weinberg if he didn't write under his full name: https://www.amazon.com/Gerald-M.-Weinberg/e/B000AP8TZ8 Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:06, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

MOS:NICK says

“For people who are best known by a pseudonym, the legal name should usually appear first in the article, followed closely by the pseudonym.” Ambitus (talk) 05:06, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

I know many who called him that, but he wrote under the full name. He was not best known by the name. It also ignores that it's a common hypocorism. The "best known by a pseudonym" example is actually a pseudonym: "Slim Pickens" not a hypocorism. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:10, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Formally and professionally he was called Gerald. I personally knew him and always called him Jerry, as did everyone else around, but professionally in writings and everything else it was Gerald. Gerald was his actual name. Canterbury Tail talk 13:03, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Agreed. Every conference or training session I took mentioned him as "Jerry", but that's not a nickname or a pseudonym, it's a hypocorism, and can be inferred from his full name. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:21, 3 August 2019 (UTC)