Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Armengaud

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was redirect. (I found no encyclopedic material to merge in any of these articles, however, the history is preserved if anyone wants to use it.) Rossami (talk) 07:16, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Joel Armengaud
I'm listing this along with Gordon Spence, Roland Clarkson, Nayan Hajratwala, Michael Cameron, Michael Shafer, and Josh Findley. The reason is that there is nothing encyclopedic about these persons that can't be said in Mersenne prime. I can't imagine anyone ever thinking of looking up their names. Possibly, redirects could be kept. Fredrik | talk 17:15, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or keep. They do contain interesting information that isn't in the main article. You could have merged them yourself without a VfD. Kappa 19:48, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, I could have merged them, but someone might disagree. Fredrik | talk 21:20, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * LOL I disagree with you listing this on VfD instead of merging - you can't win ;) Kappa 03:29, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge please. Radiant! 22:07, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand. @ Megan1967 23:26, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Expand with what? Fredrik | talk 23:43, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. [maestro] 07:15, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. These people have had a world record in finding the biggest known primes, and are for that notable. I can think of many things to expand with: Date of birth (and death when that time comes), occupation, where do they live, nationality, for how long had they been hunting primes for the GIMPS project, more detailes on the find: the exact time the computer finnished calculating vs when they themselves saw the result (human vs computer "discoveries" are interesting in it self). Say I wanted to find out who the youngest prime-record holder was, I'd like to be able to look these people up in wikipedia. Or, if one of them is, say, a dentist, I'd find that an amusing trivia and an interesting detail. One of the many that makes wikipedia great. I can't see all these things being merged easy. Shanes 14:59, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete individual pages. There are hundreds or thousands of volunteers who have given CPU cycles to GIMPS: these people here are simply the lucky few whose computers happened to be assigned a range that contained a prime.  Certainly they didn't necessarily do any more *work* than any other volunteers.  It might be useful to know biographical details (in Shanes' example, that one such person is a dentist), but this can be put in the GIMPS article.  If it can't, then it doesn't need to be here. Saforrest 13:02, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

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