Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thierry Bardini


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The result was Keep. Michig (talk) 10:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Thierry Bardini

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Fails WP:PROF. Claims in the article are completely unreferenced; the only reference list provided for this BLP is a short list of the individual's academic articles. Bueller 007 (talk) 15:54, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep as WP:AUTHOR; multiple books that are reasonably widely held, one is published with Stanford University Press, the other by University of Minnesota Press:
 * Bootstrapping : Douglas Engelbart, coevolution, and the origins of personal computing by Thierry Bardini: held by 545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
 * Junkware by Thierry Bardini: held by 199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
 * Sample reviews:
 * Bootstapping From: Technology and Culture, Volume 43, Number 1, January 2002, pp. 200-201 | 10.1353/tech.2002.0005
 * Bootstapping From IEEE Computer Society
 * Junkware From Design and Culture, The Journal of the Design Studies Forum, Volume 4, 2012 - Issue 3
 * K.e.coffman (talk) 17:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:31, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per K.e.coffman. Boomer VialHappy Holidays! • Contribs 07:36, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Both the published reviews (I added four, on two of his books, to the article) and the citation record (three pubs with over 100 cites each on Google scholar) make a plausible but weak case for notability, through WP:AUTHOR and WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:34, 7 January 2018 (UTC)


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