Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Delorie


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The result was redirect to DJGPP. There's not strictly a consensus for this redirect in the comments, but reading between the lines, I suspect most participants in the AfD would approve. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:22, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

DJ Delorie

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Doesn't meet WP:NBIO. Sources are the subject's personal website and resume, and I cannot find better sources online. Q VVERTYVS (hm?) 16:19, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:17, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak keep. I've just added two book sources  and it's obvious there are more, though none appear to discuss the subject in much detail.  I think we would probably keep the article in most similar AfDs per WP:CREATIVE #3 but I admit it's borderline.  Msnicki (talk) 21:38, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete for now as although Books and browsers found some links, there's nothing convincingly better. SwisterTwister   talk  07:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Undecided Yes, I instigated the article, so I should be very much pro, but I'm not. On the one hand, I'm pretty sure the DJGPP article reserves to stay. But OTOH I'm not sure whether this justifies the existance of the article on DJ, since his work on DJGPP seems to be his sole "claim to fame". Either way, I won't hold a grudge if the consensus will be to delete the article. -- Syzygy (talk) 17:14, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  17:00, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to DJGPP. This isn't how I thought I'd vote, but I'm not  seeing the coverage I expected.  I think part of the problem is that a lot of the coverage would have happened in the early days of the Web.  However, a great deal of this information has been digitized, and it's often possible to at least find text hits in many of the likely places, such as programming journals.  And what these sources say is almost always the same sentence: "In 1989, DJ Delorie ported GCC to MSDOS."  And then, almost invariably, the source describes DJGPP.  For example,  from Dr. Dobb's Journal. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:51, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to DJGPP, as per above, particularly .  Onel 5969  TT me 14:03, 14 December 2015 (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.