Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Hartley (computer scientist)

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The result was keep (WP:SNOW). (Non-administrator closure.) Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

David Hartley (computer scientist)[edit]

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Persona not notable. Not widely covered, held and constitutional post or recipient of any award / honour. Cheers AKS 06:21, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep he's in Who's Who [1], and Debretts [2] and is the Director of the National Museum of Computing. Also FBCS, CITP. Barney the barney barney (talk) 10:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That first honor is meaningless. See this. --Calton | Talk 02:57, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

another editor who confuses the British and American Who's Whos. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:03, 7 January 2014 (UTC).[reply]

Strong keep. Is this nomination some kind of joke? Fellow of the British Computer Society is an automatic pass of WP:PROF#C3, never mind everything else. -- 101.119.29.9 (talk) 11:19, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as clear above. Nominator is advised to study WP:Prof and WP:Before before making further nominations in this area. Xxanthippe (talk) 11:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC).[reply]
Strong Keep. The subject of this article meets Wikipedia:Notability (people) criteria in general terms as mentioned above. It also meets the additional criteria for a biography because he has made widely recognized contributions that are part of the enduring historical record in his field of computing, namely:
- Development of Autocode for EDSAC 2
- Development of CPL
- Director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service
- Chief Executive of UKERNA, the body that provides the United Kingdom Joint Academic Network (JANET)
- Member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils
- Member of the Prime Minister's Information Technology Advisory Panel
- Twice a Board Member of the British Computer Society
- President of the British Computer Society

and is currently Museum Director of The National Museum of Computing.

--TedColes (talk) 12:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep And I second Xxanthippe's advice to the nominator. --Randykitty (talk) 12:46, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep It is a WP:BLP violation to falsely suggest that such a prominent person is not notable. Andrew (talk) 12:49, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In addition to TedColes' list of achievements, here are a couple cites beyond what's already in the article, which refer to those achievements (lest anyone think we're just his fan club): InfoWorld July 27, 1992 lists numerous landmarks while (sort of) calling him the world's first IS manager; bio in A History of International Research Networking, under "the people who made it happen"; a sampling of papers and references on Google Scholar. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 13:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Sometimes, when editors have made a mistaken nomination, they have the grace to withdraw it to save the time of other editors. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC).[reply]

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