Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Plumb

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 19:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Colin Plumb

Completing nomination for anon user. The following is copied from the article's talk page. No vote. howcheng {chat} 22:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

This guy doesn't really merit a wikipedia entry under modern cryptographers. He has not published anything in the field. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JuanXonValdez (talk • contribs). 12 Dec 2005.

Yeah, a quick Google doesn't bring up much — can anyone show otherwise? — Matt Crypto 17:21, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I think he may have been involved in the development of GOST. He's cited in the appendix of Applied Crypto by Schneier. Other than that, it looks like he's just implemented a few things in the early 90's. Is the goal to list any modern cryptographer, or only notable modern cryptographers? JuanXonValdez 21:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

GOST was a Soviet Union government standard, so I very much doubt if Plumb was involved in developing it — I suspect he merely wrote an implementation of it. The goal is to list notable cryptographers, but, on Wikipedia, deletion of articles is often more trouble than it's worth; my usual tactic is to ignore non-notable topics. — Matt Crypto 11:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I suppose "notable" is always debatable, but it's a shame if that means that there are going to be irrelevant ego-entries.

I don't think this guy merits a Wikipedia entry, period. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.22.72.61 (talk • contribs) 19:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC).

• Delete, possibly as speedy, since claiming to contribute to PGP isn't exactly claiming notability. Flyboy Will 22:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as {{nn-bio}} Jamie ^{(talk/contribs)} 22:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Borderlien speedy. -R. fiend 16:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - he has contributed to this or that, but what specific thing did he contribute to make him notable? Endomion 16:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Dwain 19:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment There's a function in GNU's Java Crypto package that implements an algorithm of his -- he apparently did a popular port of MD5 as well, but he's not listed in the MD5 article. I can't tell if this is enough to keep, but I really don't think it's speedy territory.

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