Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter H. Salus


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The result was Keep - Withdrawn. Good work everyone. I must try a few more of these. Black Kite (talk) 00:26, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Peter H. Salus

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Here's a BLP which may hold some sort of a record, having existed for 15 years without ever containing a single citation. It's clearly a guy who's written a whole load of books about UNIX and various other tech subjects, but I can't find anything about the actual person. Prove me wrong... Black Kite (talk) 22:41, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * comment actually important in the field, but I see your point ... hmmmm. I'm asking around for sources - David Gerard (talk) 22:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Comment - probably passes on WP:NAUTHOR(3) / WP:PROF(1) for his contributions to the niche field of UNIX history (h-index of 12, however citation metrics for software historians? tricky. A quarter century of UNIX and the co-written Salus, Peter H., and G. Vinton. Casting the Net: From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond have over 250 citations and probably quite a few reviews). Icewhiz (talk) 11:23, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added a few citations - there actually may be a case for GNG (he got some coverage for 60s-70s work in linguistics - in the shadow/working-with W. H. Auden and even interacting a bit with Tolkien (on which he wrote, also recently, and is cited on).... He has even more coverage on FSF activities (in the shadow of Richard Stallman), and most of all as a UNIX/software historian) - though I am not asserting it in my !vote. His work passes the bar of AUTHOR(3) and SCHOLAR(1) in regards to his work on UNIX history (one of his books being the definitive work on the topic in the 90s). He also possibly passes SCHOLAR(8) for editing Computing Systems and possibly other journals (not sure of reputation - so just possibly). He probably does not pass SCHOLAR(4-6) - HOWEVER - he is not far from this. His tenure as dean at University of North Florida is noted as influential by a few sources on the university, and he was involved in the founded of the Department of Linguistics at University of Massachusetts.Icewhiz (talk) 14:06, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep Lots of citations, now. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:54, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep appears to pass WO:CRACY WP:NAUTHOR ;)  ——  SerialNumber  54129  14:04, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. I just added eight published reviews of six of his books. I think he passes WP:AUTHOR. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:25, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - those sources are great! Also, a couple of personal interviews with Salus in Vienna in November 2009:  - David Gerard (talk) 18:45, 16 April 2019 (UTC)


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