Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hal Chamberlin


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The result was keep. Maybe improve the article with some of what was found? Geschichte (talk) 07:49, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Hal Chamberlin

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Non-notable audio engineer. The lede says he is most widely known as the author of the book Musical Applications of Microprocessors, a non-notable book. Mottezen (talk) 21:34, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep admit a very small niche, but the book is well known (at least by me, shows my age?). There will not be much on-line from that period, alas. W Nowicki (talk) 23:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep in the 1970s he was a pioneering author on microprocessor electronics. For example he is mentioned on page 144 of Apple II applications by Marvin L De Jong, Richard Krajewski, ISBN 0672220350 --Rob Kam (talk) 10:22, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep or redirect The previous keeps are unconvincing (a trivial mention? really?). However, the book mentioned by the nominator and one other, is notable (looking for its title on JSTOR yields up many reviews of the book itself; a trivial sample of which are the following three:  ). I'm not a big fan of NPROF (since it often ends up with poor articles based only on primary sources), but, personal opinion aside, one could argue that the author meets no. 1 of the criteria there because of the book. The alternative ("redirect") would be to create an article on the book itself and redirect the author (especially if this is the only thing they are notable for) there. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  23:53, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  00:41, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:NAUTHOR per RandomCanadian.4meter4 (talk) 01:38, 4 October 2021 (UTC)


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