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Er... oops. I meant Dick Ossman when I wrote that comment at PC World. Sorry to David Ossman. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you meant the David Letterman favorite Dick Assman? Whatever it was, if it wasn't David Ossman, that should be clarified in the article, if it needs to be there at all. Richard K. Carson 04:59, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is two years long enough to wait? I've pulled this from the article. Preserved for posterity below, in the event it's ever clarified who the quintessential quantum unit of fame is...

In the Feb 21, 2006 "Feedback" column of PC Magazine, Chris Sherlock (a Wikipedia administrator) wrote:

Although Wikipedia has many oddball articles (for instance, we have one on Exploding whales) not everything can be included. We routinely delete articles about people who are deemed to be non-notable (admittedly, this is a fairly low standard - we have an article on David Ossman...)

This leads to the following definition:

One Ossman: the smallest unit of fame that will get you into Wikipedia.

--NapoliRoma (talk) 01:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Filmography"[edit]

...is pretty obviously a direct cut 'n' paste from IMDB. I formatted it a bit, but am wondering if the proper action is to remove it entirely... --NapoliRoma (talk) 01:48, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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