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– The engineer is highly notable as a creator of modern email protocols, as acknowledged by his receipt of the IEEE Internet Award, and he is identified as David H. Crocker for his receipt of that award and his authorship of IETF RFC 733 and IETF RFC 822, so he is clearly sometimes known as "David". Of course, "Dave" is a common diminutive used for many (probably most) people named David. A pageview comparison is here, but the article about the engineer was only recently created (on 2 September 2024). In the short time since that article was created, it has already been more popular for readers than the article about the lawn bowler, and sometimes has exceeded the readership of the article about the public policy professor. As far as I can tell, the word "network" is unnecessary for disambiguation purposes, so it should be removed. Alternatives to consider for "(academic)" could be "(professor)", "(public policy professor)" or "(public policy)". — BarrelProof (talk) 18:09, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
He eventually obtained a PhD (7 years after his time at UCLA), but he was an undergraduate student while at UCLA. I lean toward saying his work on ARPANET as an undergraduate would not be considered an academic position. His CV doesn't even seem to mention his time at UCLA except to say he got his bachelor's there in 1975! (Before he got his bachelor's degree, he was already listed as an author or credited by name in 15 RFCs!) His bachelor's degree was obtained in psychology, not engineering. According to his CV, he was a researcher at RAND Corporation 1975–1978, apparently while working on his master's degree at USC (not UPenn like the Wikipedia article said until a minute ago). Then he was in a PhD program at University of Delaware 1978–1982. His CV says he was a "Co-Principal Investigator" at U. Delaware during that time, but that's not a professorship – it seems more like a graduate student researcher role, so I wouldn't consider it a career academic position. Once he obtained a PhD, he immediately left the university to work for a commercial company, and worked only for companies after that. — BarrelProof (talk) 20:50, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
