Talk:Ron Resch

Problems with this article

First, Ron Resch, sadly, died in (2012?). Therefore, this is no longer a biography of a living person as this talk page states (December 2014).

Second, information seems to be scarce, but I did find this link:

http://symmetrygroup.squarespace.com/influences/

which informs us he lived from 1939 until 2012, and a few other details undocumented here.

The most recent 'wayback machine' archive is: https://web.archive.org/web/20100220102918/http://www.ronresch.com/ Archives after that reflect some porn squatter.

The 'wayback' pages have lacunae, but the above cited page contains: Ron Resch - 9.2.1939 - 11.19.2009 and "On Nov.19 Ron Resch's son Yon shared this sad news."

followed by a note from his son 'Yon'.

So what is true? My guess is the 'wayback' dates are probably true, and the other reference is a typo or an uniformed posting.

This post: https://arkinetblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/ron-resch-paper-folding-origami-tessellation/ Gives a Resch quote giving dates of his U of Iowa experience. The post date obliquely corroborates the 2009 day of death, but does not explicitly say the motivating 'tweet' was informing the poster of his death.

This pdf: http://www.markschenk.com/research/teaching/ArchEng2012_lecture_web.pdf contains a reference that corroborates 1939-2009 and contains many photos attributed to the defunct ronresch.com

See also this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/origomi/350073931/ showing a letter written in Resch's hand, and containing a comment by 'Ron Resch'

There are some death record sites that give teasers that corroborate the dates from the wayback page and suggest South Fallsburg New York as a place of birth. These are, of course, unreliable, but may assist more detailed web searches.

This pdf: http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~joergw/Papers/functequ.pdf Definitively corroborates South Fallsburg as the home of Resch near his death (Resch is a co-author), if it is the same Resch. This is suggested by the U of Utah co-author Frank Stenger. The topic, however, is quite distant from the work Resch is famous for.

His patent papers are readily found online.

So, there you have it - my 'original research' into tertiary sources.

I'd edit the page myself, but experience tells me my contributions would just be deleted by self appointed wiki-police. Therefore, one of you 'professional' editors may enter the links in the resources and include the minimal information required for a deceased person: when they actually lived.

There are perhaps other resources. Several of his colleagues are still living and doubtless know a great deal about him. I suppose it would be 'original research' to contact them before they die and ask, and I suppose that if they were to edit the page themselves, it would be called a 'primary source' and be deleted. How then should one proceed, pray tell? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.48.60.153 (talk) 01:20, 26 December 2014 (UTC)