Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diane Pozefsky


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. -Splash talk 01:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Diane Pozefsky

 * Delete Vanity, the person is not notable abakharev 11:13, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete- There is a fair amount of information available about Ms. Pozefsky on the internet, but I'm not sure anything she has accomplished really moves her past the threshold of being a nn-bio. Could go either way and I'd welcome someone to post some links that establish notability. Based on the article and what I've seen in my brief research I'm voting to delete.--Isotope23 15:52, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, mirror of cv. --Vsion 18:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 *  Undecided . Quoted in "Rural District Catches Up," InformationWeek. Manhasset: Mar 26, 2001., Iss. 830;  pg. 54 and "IBM Gives Its Multivendor Network Plan the Hard Sell," Network World. Framingham: Nov 30, 1992. Vol. 9, Iss. 48; p. 2. There also (sadly) seems to be something slightly notable about a woman earning a Ph.D. in computer science in 1979.  I may be able to hunt up some more info to add to the article . . . Crypticfirefly 03:44, 22 September 2005 (UTC)Keep, Fred and Konrad have convinced me.  Crypticfirefly 02:42, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP This person is an exceptionally successful woman in Computer Science. Highly unusual. She is 1 of approximately 185 IBM Fellows. She is a student and friend of Fred Brooks, she is a tenured professor at one of our nation's best Computer Science Universities. She promotes women in engineering fields, she is active in the community (locally and nationally), her career to date easily warrants inclusion. Couple this with her gender and I am stunned this is even up for consideration. She is a well known engineer and exceedingly well respected among her peers. Women in engineering is of the utmost important. There are very few role models for women Dr. Diane Pozefsky is just this. She is leaving an indelible mark on Computer Science. AaronRoe 16:08, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete 2 I find it difficult to believe that an article such as The_Banner (first result using the 'Random Article' link) can be kept and considered notable information, and yet a short biography of one of the few existing IBM Fellows (no easy feat to achieve) is considered vain and unimporant. Time and again as I randomly browse Wikipedia I come across entries about obscure, fictional people, places, and events (all of which add to Wikipedias touted 700k+ articles) and when I finally do encounter an article about an interesting, non-fictional person, it is put up for deletion. If articles are going to be deleted based on importance, then surely the Wikipedia database will be cut at least in half as I hope the previous examples demonstrated. As stated in your guidelines, Wikipedia "is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information" and the line between what should and what should not be in this encyclopedia is hazy. However if you are deleting articles that are deemed unimportant, frivolous and fictional articles should be trimmed first before real world facts. Dr. Pozefsky is an inspirational individual and an excellent mentor. Her entry into the database is a worthy addition with lots of room for expansion. Konrad
 * Keep. Her 14 patents alone should account for notability. I'd rather spend the space and bandwidth on articles like this than on wrestlers and Pokemon characters. Owen&times; &#9742;  19:29, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep ··gracefool |&#9786; 19:04, 25 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.