Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernard A Yurash


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  11:22, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Bernard A Yurash

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After seeing the article pop up on my watchlist, I looked for sources about him and couldn't find anything meaningful in Google or in Newspapers.com, either with or without the middle initial. After reading the article more carefully, it's essentially a summary of the history of the development of CMOS integrated circuits that has almost nothing to do with the role Yurash may have played.

Sources 1-10 are entirely about the big names in Silicon Valley, including references that are the Wikipedia articles for Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andrew Grove (sources 1, 7 and 9), biographies of these individuals (sources 2, 8 and 10), articles about the history of integrated circuits (sources 3 and 4) and details about Fairchild Semiconductor where he is said to have worked (sources 5 and 6). None of these references mention Yurash and the only other place he appears in Wikipedia is being name-checked as an alumnus of Fairchild Semiconductor.

Sources 11 through 14 are not linked to online sources, so I can't check them, but a review of the context of the references doesn't add much. Source 11 from Forbes Greatest Technology Stories is about a task assigned to Andy Grove. Sources 12 through 14 are scientific articles, of which 12 and 13 don't list Yurash as an author, while 14 seems to be a paper he wrote. The "Early Life" section is entirely unsourced, and I couldn't find much to add that would be in-depth coverage about him.

The main author of the article is User:Syurash1, which may well be a WP:COI issue as evidenced by the fact that the editor's entire edit histor y revolves around this article.

There is nothing here that would make Bernard A Yurash notable. Alansohn (talk) 14:05, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Wikipedia has poor coverage of significant technology developments that take place in industry because they are usually almost invisible to us. Unlike the case of academic research, innovations in industrial labs don't leave a trail of publications; industrial researchers don't cite each other's papers, they just incorporate them into their work. Historians of technology write very little about the people involved. In this case there are no independent sources available. StarryGrandma (talk) 22:46, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 15:11, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete Very little in the way of independent secondary sources. The Mercury News obit is good, but aside from that, I see a trivial mention at, and... that's it? Most of the references on the page don't mention him. Danstronger (talk) 03:44, 23 October 2021 (UTC)


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