Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott James Remnant

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The result was Keep, only keep votes, nominator also voted keep now . - Non admin closure --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 12:19, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scott James Remnant[edit]

The person doesn't fullfill the notability guideline. mms 00:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: As the article says, Scott is one of the most important technical drivers for the very popular Ubuntu operating system (formerly a featured article) and the maintainer and author of several extremely important pieces of free software including the dpkg package manager and the libtool shared library development system. The article could definitely do a better job of citing sources and including more references but the accomplishments listed clearly satisfy WP:BIO IMHO. —mako ๛ 02:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above comment - I think Mako knows more about this than me Corpx 02:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per Mako. Just because something is stub-length doesn't mean it should necessarily be deleted or that the person about whom the stub was written is not notable; it just means that more sources and information need to be added. This is an example of someone who fulfills WP:BIO but whose article needs some cleanup and additional sourcing. bwowen talk•contribs•review me please! 03:46, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, key role in one of the top Linux distros should be notability. I am unsure about the recent edit history of mms (talk · contribs), who has a) AFD'd a number of individuals, b) PROD'd a number of others, and c) massively decategorized under Category:Computer programmers and Category:Free software programmers, but my good faith assumptions are being tested. --Dhartung | Talk 07:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment mms has explained to me on my talk page that he was simply collapsing categories, and has reconsidered his position on some articles. --Dhartung | Talk 08:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per Mako. You convinced me. --mms 07:48, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.