Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Nelson (inventor)


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The result was   merge to Chrome OS. Nakon 00:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Jeff Nelson (inventor)

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I don't think the subject is notable. The patent and the books do not make him notable, leaving only the disputed claim to have invented Chrome OS. There are no independent sources which support this claim (and it appears that everyone associated with Chrome OS who has spoken publicly has disputed Nelson's claim, e.g. 1). The claim, and Jeff more widely, has gotten minimal attention from reliable sources; the extent is pretty much this blog post. The existing sources do not, in my view, meet WP:BASIC. GooseUser (talk) 17:46, 5 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment - My personal opinion is that the claim should be covered in the Chrome OS article. However, it was removed upon request by Nelson by at the BLP noticeboard.  Given this fact, I am unsure how to proceed (the PROD was contested more on the basis of it warranting a full discussion than certain notability).  My normal preference would be merge, but that may not be possible here... Possibly, Nelson couldn't sufficiently back his claim and was later embarrassed about making it.  However, the claim was certainly picked up by RS (such as link ZDNet story which is definitely reliable, despite the attempt to dismiss it as a blog) and we are under no obligation to shield Nelson was embarrassment.  OTOH, we do give some leeway to barely notable living people to have their own articles deleted and it appears the material won't be returning to Chrome OS (has been a year since it was removed) so maybe there is a valid reason to delete here. Pinging  who accepted this at AfC for input. --ThaddeusB (talk) 21:15, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge with Chrome OS as a WP:BIO1E. There are news sources here, here, here and here, but all are about the same topic (disputed authorship of Chrome OS) and all are in the same timeframe as each other. I think he can have a sentence or two in another article, but probably not too much more. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:54, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with the "merge" idea as long as something can be made to stick on the ChromeOS page. Perhaps two sentences - Nelson claimed authorship; claim has since been disputed - would work. --ThaddeusB (talk) 14:17, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


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 * Delete His inventor status is even in dispute, not really notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:30, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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