Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Kennedy (Programmer)

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]