Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Jason Dominus (2nd nomination)


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The result of the debate was keep Renata3 06:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Mark Jason Dominus
Perhaps a Merge into PERL or Kibology. Otherwise, Delete. karmafist 01:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Mr Dominus seems to be well respected enough in his field (e.g. conference speaking, authorship).—Stombs 05:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Dominus enjoys a similar status as Randal L. Schwartz or Larry Wall (and unlike them is in fact a direct participant in communities beyond Perl's). If those are not eligible for deletion, then this one isn't either. (Not that I'd expect someone who spells Perl as PERL to know much about the community or who are its cornerstones…) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aristotle Pagaltzis (talk • contribs)
 * Comment Of course not. The Community of PERL isn't particularly notable. It would be like saying members of our community are encyclopedic enough to be notable just because of Wikipedia. The only person that would work for is Jimbo. karmafist 19:49, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Right. Now imagine Wikipedia was 20 years old and had a board that consisted of more like 20-30 members, a handful of which had contributed significantly to all of the code running Wikipedia, its direction as a community, and its actual content. Aristotle 23:45, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, founder of Kibology, author, and programmer of common Perl modules. Together sufficient reason for notability and separate article. - Mgm|(talk) 22:11, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per anon user above (sign your posts!). rodii 16:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)


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