Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Kennedy (Programmer)

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The result was keep. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 04:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adam Kennedy (Programmer)

contested prod, lacks significant coverage in 3rd party sources. Does not pass WP:BIO RadioFan (talk) 12:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have added further information which I believe improves the article, as well as media reference by Larry Wall (creator of perl) as quoted in Australian ComputerWorld. Seems unfair to refute Adam's contributions to the Perl community, which include hundreds of useful modules that provide building blocks for greater things (several of which are mentioned).

Per the WP:AUTHOR criteria, I think he should qualify as being widely cited by his peers and known for originating significant techniques (eg. PPI's novel approach to parsing Perl 5). His contributions are also a substantial part of the collective work which is Perl's CPAN repository.

Stennie (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 15:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete While I have no doubt that he has contributed to the PERL community, he is lacking any "significant coverage" by mainstream media. This guideline was set so that we do not have to set arbitrary guidelines each time notability comes into question Corpx (talk) 05:40, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Note that he has not contributed to the "PERL" community, but to the "Perl" community Maddingue (talk) 21:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. —Grahame (talk) 02:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep As per WP:AUTHOR, Adam Kennedy is regularly cited by his peers. He is responsible for creating a significant and well-known work: Strawberry Perl, one of the dominant distributions of Perl under Windows. Adam's development of the PPI framework allowed for the creation of Perl::Critic, which is considered to be of outstanding value to the Perl community. Adam has more than 200 distributions on the CPAN, making him the world's second most prolific Perl author by module count. Adam is a regular speaker at OSCON, OSDC, and YAPC technical conferences around the world. --Pjf (talk) 05:38, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Adam Kennedy is cited in several important technical magazines (ZDNet, Linux Magazine, Computer World), especially for Strawberry Perl, which is more than appreciated by Windows Perl users. Strawberry Perl and its derivatives are an important project because they provide a way to use the dynamic language Perl on the Windows platform as seamlessly as on Unix systems, and allow to easily use the CPAN (which wasn't the case with ActivePerl). Adam also started the PPI project which goal was deemed impossible by more notorious Perl hackers. This module is now the foundation for other important modules and programs, namely Perl::Critic and Padre. Maddingue (talk) 21:33, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I have moved the page from Adam Kennedy (Programmer) to Adam Kennedy (programmer) per style guidelines. Should the result of this discussion be a deletion, the closing admin should check for pages linking to the old title also. — Hex (❝?!❞) 01:48, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.