W.C. Lin (林文釗)

Identity Snapshot

石清正’s community memoir 「在矽谷創業臺美人」 (2014-09-05, band A — primary material) names 林文釗 among the Taiwanese entrepreneurs who built Silicon Valley: 「1979年林文釗創立EGW Publishing Company，出版多種英文雜誌及書籍。台灣人辦英文雜誌是很特殊的創業，可見他有過人的才氣。」 — the memoir frames a Taiwanese running an English-language magazine house as an exceptional venture. See 09.
The English section of the same memoir names him Wayne Lin and adds the publishing detail: 「1980 – Wayne Lin founded EGW Publishing Company, which produced six English language magazines, the most well known being Popular Woodworking」 — framing him as one of the few Taiwanese-American entrepreneurs in the English publishing industry (09, EN section).
HOLD: conflict on EGW Publishing Company founding year — 1979 (石清正 memoir, Chinese section) vs 1980 (same memoir, English section) vs 1982 (TAH Who’s Who employment table). Not merged.
His own encyclopedia entry is held as 03 (published 2016-03-20).

1979/1980 — founded EGW Publishing Company per 石清正’s memoir (1979 in the Chinese section, 1980 in the EN section; HOLD vs 1982 in TAH profile).
2016-03-20 — recorded in the TAH Foundation encyclopedia (#898).
Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09231000-7): hits = index, ourjourneys19 (石清正 memoir, absorbed incl. EGW founding-year HOLD), own entry 898; saturated, no new absorbable facts.
Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250317-8): identical hit set (ourjourneys19, 898, index); EGW founding-year HOLD (1979 vs 1980 vs 1982) stands; saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.
Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09251500-2): identical hit set (ourjourneys19, 898, index); EGW founding-year HOLD stands; saturated, SKIP-no-new-facts.

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

|TAH Foundation
|taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
Corpus re-grep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300321-7): fresh ZH+EN grep returns the identical hit set (already-linked works + own index/encyclopedia entry) — verified-saturated, nothing new absorbable. SKIP. hits-hash=de4a7e7c734b