Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Douwe Osinga

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The result was delete. W.marsh 04:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Douwe Osinga[edit]

A blogger. And Google employee. Although we have no sources for either statement, or indeed anything else. Sole claim to actual notability seems to be his Google Hacks website, which is the subject of a very short review in PC magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1782095,00.asp - no biographical data in reliable sources that I have found thus far. Guy (Help!) 11:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as above. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Snalwibma 14:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain. I think Douwe's most notable achievement is co-founding World66, an Open Content wiki travel guide. Before its acquisition in April 2006, the World66 web site had some biographical info on the founders, but this seems to be gone now. Founding a successful Web site has been grounds for notability before, but it's not definite whether World66 crosses the threshold. Disclaimer: I founded Wikitravel, once a rival and now a sister site for W66, and it wouldn't be proper for me to vote here. --ESP 14:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If anything, this article should be expanded. World 66 was and is pretty popular in the travel community. ESP: Yes it does cross the threshold! This guy also invented and implemented Google Trends, which is a significant contribution.

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