Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Gelperin


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The result was   no consensus. Nakon 01:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Dave Gelperin

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I couldn't establish that he meets WP:BIO or WP:GNG Boleyn (talk) 15:44, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not appear to meet WP:ACADEMIC. I was unable to find any sources for him.  He is mentioned at Software_testing implying that he and a colleague (William_C._Hetzel) are important in the history of software testing, but I was unable to find anything significant on either of them and it seemed that their contributions had been exaggerated. Anyone as significant as claimed in Software testing->History would likely have a publication that was cited thousands of times in Google scholar, not hundreds at most.  --Padenton (talk) 17:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The fact that he doesn't meet WP:ACADEMIC is unsurprising given he's an industrialist involved in working groups, conferences and consultancy, not a "publish or perish" academic. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:54, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep – I fixed the dead link to his bio and added three sources. It's kind of hard to find sources for that long ago, but it seems that the firm that he founded with Hetzel (who wrote an influential book on testing) was in fact influential in establishing testing as a separate discipline in the 1980s and 1990s. The – Margin1522 (talk) 21:34, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you provide a source for their company being influential in establishing testing as a separate discipline? --Padenton (talk) 23:37, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's in the article. The history of software testing – Margin1522 (talk) 06:14, 15 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/g/Gelperin:David finds the following papers:
 * David Gelperin, Bill Hetzel: The Growth of Software Testing. Commun. ACM 31(6): 687-695 (1988)
 * David Gelperin: A software test documentation standard. SIGDOC 1982: 61-63
 * David Gelperin: On the Optimality of A*. Artif. Intell. 8(1): 69-76 (1977)
 * David Gelperin: A Resolution-Based Proof Procedure Using Deletion-Directed Search. IEEE Trans. Computers 25(4): 323-327 (1976)
 * David Gelperin: Deletion-Directed Search in Resolution-Dased Proof Procedures. IJCAI 1973: 47-50

In addition, http://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Gelperin finds
 * David Gelperin: Modeling_Alternative_Courses_in_Detailed_Use_Cases. January 2003.

These are consistent with the (decently-cited) claims made in the article that Gelperin was active in the software testing field. The Conf. on Software Testing and the STAR conference work are definite marks of notability. I'd agree with Margin1522 that this was a while back, but since notability is not temporary it shouldn't be a problem. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:54, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
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 * None of those papers have a high number of citations. --Padenton (talk) 01:58, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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