Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Ferris


 * 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 was keep. Yunshui 雲 水 12:45, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Christopher Ferris

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I am unable to find any substantial of the subject in reliable sources. Neither WP:BIO or WP:PROF appear to be met. SmartSE (talk) 21:21, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 22:00, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 22:00, 4 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Argument for keeping Christopher Ferris: Spohrer (talk) 12:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Improved the article with additional CACM publication and OASIS document reference to add more evidence that WW:BIO is met.
 * Note: 3 of 10 news stories were about Chris Ferris and HyperLedger (see ) Also WP References are about Chris Ferris and HyperLedger. All this in spite of the fact that Chris Ferris is a common name, and there is a prolific author of non-technical writing with the name Chris Ferris.
 * Note: I have added a reference indicating that Chris Ferris is an important person to the HyperLedger Project of the Linux Foundation, as Chair of the Technical Steering Committee.  I also added a reference to the importance of the HyperLedger Project to the Linux Foundation.  Ferris (as can be verified by his GitHub profile) has made substantial contributions to an important open community project used by 200 members and associates. Not sure how to add the significance of Chris Ferris' GitHub contributes to the article - but working on that... but he is a technically eminent and famous person because of that.
 * Note: Hyperledger refers to Christopher Ferris.
 * Spohrer (talk) 12:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank-you for reviewing the page for Christopher Ferris. Spohrer (talk) 13:32, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Argument for not deleting: Christopher Ferris is an important and famous member of the "Open source advocates" category. Spohrer (talk) 2:20, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Argument for not deleting, as well as expanding WP:AUTHOR for WP:CREATIVE to include mention of creative people who are significant open source coders/programmers, contributors, committers, maintainers, and governance board members of open communities as notable people WP:BIO who are worthy of having a biography [WP:BIO] on Wikipedia. Last week, Microsoft offered $7B for GitHub, and this event is an indication of the economic significance of open source community work, and how it has grown to the point that an early enemy of open source now embraces it.   Another example - Wiki is another example of the significance of open source work and community collaboration.  Wikipedians and editor should rally to this cause, and expand WP:AUTHOR to include a line that goes beyond books, movies, and include open source software contributions as a creative act with great economic significance.  Christopher Ferris article is a good article to have forced this discussion.  Thanks to SmartSE for providing the starting point for this discussion here.   Spohrer (talk) 14:40, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ,, , and please consider argument above for expanding WP:AUTHOR for WP:CREATIVE to include mention of creative people who are significant open source coders/programmers, contributors, committers, maintainers, and governance board members of open communities as notable people WP:BIO who are worthy of having a biography [WP:BIO] on Wikipedia.  Also per WP:BIO "Special Cases" instructions, I am adding request for "cleanup biography" and more "expert needed" to Christopher Ferris article to continue improving it. Spohrer (talk) 14:57, 10 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Argument for keeping Christopher Ferris: Daviding (talk) 01:38, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Ferris sufficiently notable within the blockchain community to be giving a keynote at the 2017 Open Source Leadership Summit (which I added to the entry) Daviding (talk) 00:21, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Searching Google Scholar, Ferris and Farrell (2003) is cited 321 times, see https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16816122887588808031&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 ; W3C Working Group notes including Ferris as author are cited 220 times (for the 2002 draft) and 222 times (for the 2004 working group notes)  Daviding (talk) 01:38, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * and The page for Christopher Ferris should not be speedily deleted because the figure is a significant leader in the blockchain technology standards leadership, and blockchain is a fast-moving world.  In the edits above,  has attempted some revisions.  Are these sufficient?  If not, please advise what else is required. (This is my first time contesting a speedy deletion, please advise if I'm not doing it right). Daviding (talk) 02:36, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: The two of you, please let others participate.......

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Winged Blades Godric  06:58, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per nomination. He seems to be successful in his field, but I can't find significant coverage of him, independently of his projects, to meet WP:BIO or WP:GNG, with only passing mentions in WP:Secondary sources. TMGtalk 07:39, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   09:24, 20 June 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I hate a third relist but given the sheer volume of nonsense prior to the first relist and James500's salient argumentation, this needs some more discussion.....
 * If this is who I think it might be, then he is probably notable. A search of GScholar indicates that Chris Ferris has papers with 507, 407, 249, 164, 158, 88, 76, 39 and 25 cites. There is also a paper on Web Architecture that is listed so many times I can't tell you how many cites it has. Several highly cited papers with 100+ cites (let alone 500+) should probably satisfy PROF. James500 (talk) 03:31, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &#x222F; WBG converse 13:08, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep – Meets criteria #1 of WP:PROF where it states “The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources.” In addition, the most typical way of satisfying Criterion 1 is to show that the academic has been an author of highly cited academic work – either several extremely highly cited scholarly publications or a substantial number of scholarly publications with significant citation rates. Mr. Ferris more than qualifies as demonstrated by cites to his papers as shown here at Google Scholar . ShoesssS Talk 13:42, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - Appears to meet WP:NPROF. ~Kvng (talk) 15:35, 3 July 2018 (UTC)


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