Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luis Villa


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) czar ♔   04:10, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Luis Villa

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Like the previous biographies I nominated today, this one seems to fail Notability (people) - and badly, at that. This is just a short CV or a lawyer, nothing else. Ego Hunter (talk) 05:46, 28 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep The subject is a director of a leading open source organisation (OSI), a past director of the GNOME Foundation, a key voice in open source issues (notably as author of the second edition of the Mozilla Public License) and as DGC at Wikimedia Foundation can be expected to frequently be researched in Wikipedia. Seems obviously notable to me. ClareTheSharer (talk) 12:03, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Luis Villa is hugely prominent within open-source advocacy and policy circles, and has been for very many years. The nominator has confused his criticisms of the article with the issue of notability general. In my view, an AfD needs to be based on an external determination of notability, not a criticism of an article itself. The nominator does not seem to have done this. MikeGodwin (talk) 16:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 13:53, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 13:53, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 13:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 13:56, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:06, 29 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - extensive third-party coverage, as is obvious from the references. This is a very low-quality deletion nomination - David Gerard (talk) 12:20, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - The subject is very well-known in the field of open source software, and is often cited by non-specialist sources too. Some examples: this New York Times article, this Wired.com article on the same topic, this Computerworld.uk article, this Opensource.com interview... The page is definitely not just a CV for some random lawyer.  (Nor do I see any evidence that Luis Villa himself ever had anything to do with creating or editing the page, for what it's worth.  Not that that's the criterion for notability, but it does say something that all those other people thought him notable enough to warrant a page.) --Karl Fogel 12:56, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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