Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gian Merlino

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The result was no consensus with no prejudice against speedy renomination due to lack of participation. (non-admin closure) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:33, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gian Merlino[edit]

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Most cited sources are non-independent. VentureBeat has only a passing mention. It does not seem to pass WP:GNG. MarioGom (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. MarioGom (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. MarioGom (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. MarioGom (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: This article is a biography of the co-creator of Apache Druid, a technology widely-used by thousands of organizations, including Wikimedia's Wikistat project. This seems to qualify under WP:AUTHOR: "The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique" There are multiple sources cited for this article. alumnius.net, apache.org, and datascienceassn.org are reliable sources that are independent of the subject. While they are not secondary sources, they seem to fall under the guidelines for inclusion in WP:PRIMARY. I've added an additional paragraph, with a source of an independent reporting source, SF Scala. Briskmad (talk) 04:24, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The Apache Foundation is not an independent source when considering notability of its projects or its committers. Yes, you can use it in the article, but it doesn't count for notability. I don't think software developers generally fall within the intended scope of WP:AUTHOR, but assuming they do, not every software product can be considered a significant new concept, theory, or technique (as much as I appreciate Apache Druid). In the field of computer science, that would be something like Relational algebra, Discrete Fourier transform, or MapReduce. MarioGom (talk) 16:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 02:25, 10 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:48, 17 April 2022 (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.