Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joi Ito

 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 keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Joi Ito

 * Delete Vanity Page --70.19.111.5 03:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep He seems pretty notable and note that this page was started by Jimbo Wales Himself... can you really argue with him? Sasquatch&#08242;&#08596;Talk&#08596;Contributions 04:02, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy ... and only because Jimbo Wales was involved... otherwise, it needs MAJOR edits --Bloghate 05:10, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Joichi Ito is a major figure in the recent history of Internet technologies, particularly in Japan. Through his writing, networking, and advocacy, he's fueled a great number of notable social and software inventions. JustinHall 06:03, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems notable enough to me since Ive heard of him quite a bit and I am by no means very technology/business oriented. Needs cleanup though. -CunningLinguist 07:29, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and delist. VfD vandalism by IP address 70.19.111.5 who is working hand in glove with User:Bloghate.   &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 08:16, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per given reasons. Mgm|(talk) 09:47, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable. But I'm not convinced that this is vandalism, and please don't remove VFD notices. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 10:54, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep looks plenty notable to me, regardless of original creator. -- Jonel 16:09, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable person, is even listed amongst other famous people/Wikipedians.--Kross 17:58, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and note that this VfD was started by an anonymous user Him(or Her)self... can you really believe him or her? jglc | t | c 20:11, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please he seems famous Yuckfoo 21:10, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain Would be vain to vote to keep. ;-) --Joi 23:53, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. James F. (talk) 23:55, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. In fact, I don't really care. I'm not sure the policy of keeping, deleting makes a lot of sense. If it's really an issue for the wikipedians, why not creating a people.wikipedia.org accepting every _individual_ who's not opposed to be on it. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:KarlDubost
 * Keep And look into a way to prevent Vfd (a useful feature) from being used for time-wasting trollery like this. If this were a serious attempt to cull non-wiki-worthy bloggers, it wouldn't have started with notables like Joi, Anil, and Hoder. Betsy Devine
 * Keep. Ted
 * Keep Joi is at least important enough to have articles written about him in magazines and newspapers. It would seem to be good to have him included on Wikipedia incase anybody ever reads about him and thinks to look here for more information. Grant
 * Comment: A troll listing by an IP. Why wasn't this simply removed at once? Dan100 (Talk) 08:19, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * Because we assume good WP:FAITH and consider the possibility that the nominator was simply mistaken, rather than trolling. Xe made about eight nominations, several of which made perfect sense. This one, less so, hence consensus to keep. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 08:54, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm with Betsy Devine; the attempt to go after some of the best known and most influential early bloggers seems to indicate an anti-blog jihad, not a genuine concern for the quality of wikipedia. Mamamusings 19:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Joi is worthy of a Wikipedia entry --NikCubrilovic 03:20, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as above. --Andy M. 10:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Joi plays a prominent role in a wide variety of political, technological, and financial spheres. There's no way his entry should be deleted. -- AKMA
 * Keep I came here to look up information about Joi, and I am puzzled as to how such an influential member of the digerati could be put up for deletion. In order to regard Joi as too unimportant to keep, you would have to delete most of the blogosphere, which is apparently what the anonymous coward was trying to do. -- Skyfaller 03:40, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)
 * Keep seems an interesting fellow - Aaronbrick 04:39, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Joi is a notable person. - ioerror Sun Jun 19 23:37:06 PDT 2005
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