Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard A. Karp


 * 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   delete. Spartaz Humbug! 03:32, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Richard A. Karp

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Procedural listing following deletion review. The concern appears to be that the subject of the article is not notable. Mkativerata (talk) 20:01, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not finding sufficient news coverage to pass WP:GNG for him in his role as CEO of Catapult — there are plenty of press releases, and a few stories that mention him in a trivial way, but nothing that is both reliably published and nontrivial. And nothing else in the article even looks like an assertion of notability to me. There's some potential for confusion with Richard M. Karp but I don't think that's a good reason to keep in the absence of anything else. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:59, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep (article creator's !vote). IMHO, the bit about him being CEO of Catapult isn't so much a notability claim as just a bit of "where is he now?". The reason I decided to make the article was seeing his name mentioned in RFC 773, and noticing that it would be easy for any random Wikipedian to confuse him with Richard M. Karp (thus resulting in misinformation in that article). I could have written a hatnote something like Not to be confused with Richard A. Karp, an implementor of TCPcite1 and coauthor of the Stanford Pascal manualcite2, but that seemed a little ridiculous compared to just adding a standalone article. --Quuxplusone (talk) 07:29, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Couldn't it be a section at the bottom? I agree, these men are easily confused. --Pnm (talk) 01:14, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. The subject is not covered by independent secondary sources.  That he was the CEO of a company may be considered as evidence of notability, but only if the company already has a stable, acceptable article, and even then, the subject would be better covered in that article.  This article has no incoming links from article space.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:28, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:27, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete - a mere footnote in history; no need to create an entire article just so you have something to link a hatnote to. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  20:10, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.