Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Costello


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The result was   delete. Wizardman 23:58, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Tom Costello
Note: There is now an article for Tom Costello, an American jockey. Handicapper (talk) 16:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


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Article has been tagged for over a month. Besides, even if Cuil were notable (a big assumption), is it's founder's husband? Misterdiscreet (talk) 17:56, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: The search engine was founded last month and this is supposed to be the level of entrepeneur who gets an article here?  Absolutely not.  Let the engine become popular, the company profitable, and then let the businessman do something that sets him apart from other IT startups.  Utgard Loki (talk) 18:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 22:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete for now, per WP:BLP1E. Hmmm. A fairly strange case. I don't think there is any academic notability under WP:PROF here. Little info is available about his research and I could not find much beyond his old webpage as a postdoc(?) at Stanford, which is about 10 years old and does not have much info. In terms of notability under WP:BIO things are more complicated. There is a massive amount of short-term coverage related to the Cuil launch. GoogleNews gives 1669 hits for "Tom Costello" cuil. However, all of this coverage is very short-term and related exclusively to the Cuil launch. So for the moment this is a WP:BLP1E case (and, in fact, the entire Cuil episode has a WP:NOT feel to it). Delete the article for now. If there is any relevant biographical info here (which there does not seem to be a lot of), it can be merged into Cuil and covered there. Nsk92 (talk) 23:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * merge to Cuil. Agree with Nsk92 that this is a biography of person of transient (ie WP:NOT) interest. Pete.Hurd (talk) 05:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 14:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unless any material can be merged with Cuil doktorb wordsdeeds 20:56, 31 August 2008 (UTC)


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