Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Golick


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The result was   delete. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 21:12, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

James Golick

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I don't believe that this person has lasting notability. Everything in this article has to do with him doing his job Gbawden (talk) 11:05, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete – It seems that he was a fine person and not unknown in the open source community, but WP:ANYBIO needs a "widely recognized contribution". Unfortunately I don't think contributions like the Ruby on Rails libraries were covered widely enough to qualify under that. – Margin1522 (talk) 19:09, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Lots of podcasts call themselves "Real Talk". For example here we have "Todd & Larry, 2 west coast dudes", and "Adam & Koko/Rambling with Ryan", etc. Pax 04:56, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment&mdash;I'm seeing a large number of ghits across a pretty wide spectrum of topics. I can't point to any subset that would definitely establish notability, but I think someone who is more connected with the rails community might be able to make a good case here.  Lesser Cartographies (talk) 02:33, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  00:35, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment&mdash;James made contributions the MRI (the main ruby virtual machine), additionally he made contributions to Google's tcmalloc a rather notable project. He gave many talks around the world on a variety of topics in computer science and engineering . And finally he was an advocate for Women working in open source - devoting time to mentoring women entering the generally male dominated world of open source. All of these I believe point to him being widely recognized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JosephGaudet (talk • contribs) 20:12, 14 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - The only reliable source I see is his obituary. ~KvnG 21:24, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment/Links
 * Hacker News
 * Medium (written by Founder/CEO of Quirky and one of Forbes "America's Most Promising CEOs Under 35")
 * Reddit ("Rubyist and mod of this sub")
 * "The James Golick Grant for Women in Computology" (referenced from this blog, which also has several other links to obituaries/tributes. However, the grant was actually started by his family, so not in itself contributing to notability or independent sourcing)
 * AlleyWatch (was to present at "New York Tech Meetup")
 * The Province obituary (previously mentioned)
 * 50.153.132.140 (talk) 04:48, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * See WP:RELIABLE and let me know which of these you believe qualify. ~KvnG 14:58, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Delete - as above. Neutralitytalk 22:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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