Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ernst Herrera Legorreta

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 20:46, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Ernst Herrera Legorreta
This appears to be a vanity/autobiography page: User:Danakil appears to be Herrera. Moreover, Herrera does not seem to be notable according to Importance and Criteria for inclusion of biographies. The NGL programming language doesn't show up anywhere else on the Web (see Talk:NGL_programming_language) and I can't find anything about the revival of the oligosynthesis theory for Nahuatl language &mdash; there is a different Herrera (Fermin Herrera) who has published work on Nahuatl. There should at least be citations for this work -- Verifiability. I brought up these concerns on Talk:Ernst Herrera Legorreta in April, and have seen no response. --Macrakis 6 July 2005 18:45 (UTC)
 * Delete, either hoax or unverifiable. Dcarrano July 6, 2005 20:06 (UTC)
 * Delete notability questionable/unverified. --Etacar11 7 July 2005 00:46 (UTC)
 * Delete unless the author can identify some sources. -- BD2412 talk July 7, 2005 01:07 (UTC)


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Comment from Danakil: I regret not having able to respond to this before: I had to take a year off from contributing to Wikipedia (see my homepage for details). No, I am NOT Ernst Herrera Legorreta (EHL). But I happen to have met him personally (in an academic setting) while in Mexico and, being thus directly involved, it now seems to me that I shouldn't have been the original author of the bio article. Furthermore, I do agree with most of the other comments made here regarding the EHL article, and I concord with the idea of removing the bio article until more information can be obtained from other sources. The work of EHL is mostly known in the area of Programming Languages (a very serious, public source is the Mexican business magazine "EXPANSION" which has interviewed EHL at length at least two times, first in 1997 then in 1999, the records of which are available online through the magazine's web site). He has been (indirectly) nominated twice for the top technology prizes awarded by the Mexican Government (first, as the chief architect of Miramar Technology SAdeCV, and second, as the chief scientist of Tlallian SAdeCV). But of course, it could be argued that these facts, though indeed verifiable, do not qualify him for a bio article. To this I would comment that it might be reasonable to set slightly different degrees of minimum accomplishment to be worthy of a bio depending on the geographical context where the person in question mostly develops. Mexico is not the in the same league as the US in technological accomplishments. One final comment, regarding the Nahuatl aspect of EHL's work: unlike the work done in most US universities, that done in most of the Mexican ones (with some localized exceptions in certain academic areas, mostly from the UNAM and the ITESM) is *not immediately available online*, if it ever becomes so. This, I believe, explains the difficulty in finding online confirmation of EHL's Nahuatl-related work, which was done, IIRC, at the Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas and the Center for Huaxtec Studies in Tampico, Tamaulipas. I will try to find more information regarding that work and, in the meantime, I fully agree with the consensus reached about the deletion of the bio article. Nevertheless, I do believe that the NGL Programming Language (which was also removed at the time) should be reinstated. NGL is a descendant of the J Programming Language created by Herrera and about which there is firm, public information regarding its use by the government of several Mexican States (Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon being the most easily verifiable ones) in a large number of instalations covering, at least, 30 different municipalities. 201.135.18.50 07:01, 26 December 2005 (UTC)