Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bob Shannon (computer programmer): Difference between revisions

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*'''Keep'''. Maybe ''especially'' since most of the sources pre-date Google. We shouldn't delete topics (even computer topics) just because publications discussing them are not readily available online. Understanding history of software (and the people associated with it) is an excellent thing for WP to document, and this seems like an obviously notable individual in that early history of PCs. <font color="darkgreen">[[User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|LotLE]]</font>×<font color="darkred" size="-2">[[User talk:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|talk]]</font> 01:33, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

*'''Delete'''. Sole claim to notability, or source of interest from a computer history standpoint, is his BBS [[Electric Magazine]]. A move there is worth considering if better sourcing turns up (I spent the last half hour digging in my basement for that ''Compute!'s Gazette'' issue, to no avail), but I'm not seeing anything that would pass [[WP:BIO]]. &mdash;[[User:Korath|Korath]] ([[User talk:Korath|Talk]]) 01:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

*'''Note'''. Most of this article was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Shannon_(computer_programmer)&diff=prev&oldid=29958569 autobiographical]. See the old AfD for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FFounder_of_the_Bulletin_Board_System&action=historysubmit&diff=29819258&oldid=29807618 another IP] whose prefix matches this one, and admits to be Shannon. You may also want to read the comment made by [[Jason Scott Sadofsky]] ([[User:jscott]]) in [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Founder_of_the_Bulletin_Board_System|the previous AfD]]. The claim that his is the 1st [[Commodore VIC-20]] BBS is also dubious given that bbsdocumentary.com only lists one such system, and it isn't Shannon's; see [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/COMMODORE/VIC-20]. The [[COMPUTE!'s Gazette]] snippet only mentions [[Commodore 64]] as platform for "Electric Magazine". [[User:Pohta ce-am pohtit|Pcap]] [[User_talk:Pohta ce-am pohtit|<small>ping</small>]] 02:18, 29 January 2010 (UTC)