Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Tatham

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was DELETE Babajobu 21:16, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Tatham[edit]

Delete Unsure why this merits inclusion. Efforts of spare time / student "free software" programmers aren't usually significant. Wikipedia is not intended to be infinite. Deiz 00:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete only supporting information is his personal website and blog. Durova 00:45, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep Fair number of hits on this search and this one from a broad selection of sources. Seems to be fairly well known in the industry. TigerShark 01:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The "Reporting Bugs Effectively" article does seem to be fairly well known but was written in 1999. Also, those 2 searches are identical. Deiz 01:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out, copied the same search link twice, now corrected. Cheers TigerShark 01:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Programmers are a dime a dozen. -R. fiend 04:14, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. Smerge to Putty (it already mentions him). Trans-intarweb to advogato. Not convinced that the essay makes him notable. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-16 05:00Z
Delete per above Eusebeus 07:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per R. fiend--Ezeu 15:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (no objection to a redirect/merge with Putty). Putty - famous and notable. Simon Tatham - never heard of him. --kingboyk 21:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - unless there are evidence that the article "Reporting Bugs Effectively" is widely considered as essential reading, the article should be deleted for non-notable.--Hurricane111 15:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - minor but marginally notable. If not, merge and redirect to PuTTY - David Gerard 16:22, 18 January 2006 (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.