Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve McConnell

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash talk 21:55, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Steve McConnell
vanity, likely self-published, self-promotional in nature, of limited notability — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deansaling (talk • contribs) 00:42, 21 August 2005
 * Completely disagree. McConnell is a well known software engineer, and his books are not at all self-published. The page may be promotional, but it's certainly not self-promotional. I say Keep. coldacid 15:05, 2005 September 8 (UTC)
 * This vfd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  Keep, seems notable enough. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 08:36, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep McConnell is the author of very well-known & influential software engineering books, particularly Code Complete. SpuriousQ 08:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and hopefully expand and/or restructure. --Jacqui M Schedler 16:07, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I own two of his books, published by Microsoft press. Hardly non-notable. DES (talk) 22:03, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity. --Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho 00:17, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It reads like book cover copy, if not then Keep and cleanup, too informal (first name use) for encyclopedia._WCFrancis 01:50, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Well-known author, but the article really needs some serious clean-up. -- THL 07:17, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
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