Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregg Zehr


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The result was   delete. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:35, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Gregg Zehr

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This article does not meet the standards for inclusion outlined in WP:BIO. There are no articles about Mr. Zehr that I could find in Google Books or Scholar. Searching the news, I found a few articles that mention Mr. Zehr but only as a representative of a company (e.g. Amazon (1) and Palm One (2)). It seems that the subject's claim to notability arises solely through his connection with a very popular product. Since articles do not inherit notability from tangentially related topics I do not believe that this article satisfies inclusion criteria; namely multiple, reliable sources that are independent of the subject.  Dubious Irony  yell  06:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Logan Talk Contributions 01:50, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does clearly not meet WP:BIO.Cheezburgerboy (talk) 10:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete, not notable as written. The first ref mentions the Kindle, but does not mention Zehr that I can see. FieldMarine (talk) 12:01, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - If this guy was the team leader behind development of the Kindle, he would be notable, in my opinion. A quick Google search returned a weak source with the following lead: When Gregg Zehr was approached by Amazon.com to develop Kindle, he asked why he should be interested. The answer they gave him: “To change the world." And here's another web source from 2007 calling Zehr out by name that won't impress anyone as a "valid" WP source but should give all of us pause: KINDLE is so ugly it even makes a ZUNE look good. Gregg Zehr, the guy who headed the design team for KINDLE needs to find another career.  This article is excruciatingly bad, but my best guess is that this is an individual worthy of encyclopedic biography. This piece is correctable via the normal editing process and therefore not a candidate for deletion, in my view. Carrite (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 03:01, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


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