Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian d foy


 * 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 keep. Ifnord 03:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

brian d foy
Non-notable bio. CDThieme 01:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Um ... says who? That's nonsense.  He's a very well-known figure in significant communities. He also satisfies the requirement "Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more."  (His most recent book sold 13,000 copies last quarter alone.) Go away KTHX. Pudgenet 02:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete nn bio, he helped to tweak a computer book that has Randal L. Schwartz as the original sole author. I'm sure in the annals of the Earth he will be duly enshrined.    Ruby 02:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * You have no idea what you are talking about. He wrote about a quarter of the new, and completely revised, edition.  Plus he has been published multiple times in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more (TPJ was 10,000).  Plus, he is writing a third or more of Intermediate Perl (which will surely have a circulation of well over 5,000), and the new edition of Mastering Perl (ditto).  What's the point of having notability guidelines if you're just going to ignore them?  Pudgenet 02:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Sometimes we gotta think outside the box. Ruby 03:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * And your thinking is, what? You hold a personal grudge?  Or something less substantive?  Pudgenet 03:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I apologize BTW for being a bit blunt and abrasive. I have a massive head cold and am irritable, and this is just annoying. Pudgenet 03:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep. His publications seem to be notable enough, if 5000+ audience is the relevant criterion.  Skud 04:47, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep The main thing that makes it for him is being chief editor of The Perl Review. 27,000 Google hits for that publication. Durova 05:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable person in open-source software communities, has been published half a dozen times in Dr. Dobbs Journal [] (audited circulation 120,000), he has contributed significantly to the Perl programming language. Google reports 86,000 hits on the quoted phrase "brian d foy" and he is listed as author on two books in amazon. (As a disclaimer, I have written an article for the Perl Review [], the quarterly journal edited by brian.) DAllen\talk 05:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. brian is definitely a notable leader, author, speaker, and contributor to the Perl community.  His efforts as a founder for Perl Mongers user groups led to the creation of a global user group community (175+ active user groups, ~780,000 matches in google for site:pm.org) Stennie 06:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Not only for all the reasons listed above, but also because brian's contribution to the Perl community is steadily increasing. --alessio 08:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong keep For all reasons listed above, seems like brian is a rather significant contributor to Perl. I think he meets notability guidelines. -- Samir  |Talk  ∙  Contribs | 10:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep O'Reilly author and notable editor. And stuff.  Note: this is not a Geogre's Law failure. Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px|  ]] AfD? 15:51, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep bdfoy is one of the top 20 names in the Perl community. Chris Dolan 16:01, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as easily meeting our notability guidelines. Please do some research before bringing things to AfD. Turnstep 16:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP. matt.
 * Keep meets WP:BIO - Liberatore(T) 17:19, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep as notable. &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-27 21:35Z 
 * Strong keep meets WP:BIO Nick Catalano (Talk) 00:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets notability guidelines Thomas 21:04, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep bdfoy is a very good author regarding Perl - []
 * Keep: sufficent notability established. Jonathunder 19:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep: sufficiently notable. de vogon 19:56 29 januari 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep: sufficiently notable. lanta 20:35 29 january 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.