Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robey Pointer

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. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 14:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robey Pointer

author of an IRC script Eggdrop, not notable enough. Grocer 03:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - nn bio --Grocer 03:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, not sufficiently notable per WP:BIO. Royboycrashfan 03:13, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per everyone. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Notable author of a program that's really notable within a non-trivial field. His software left a lasting mark on Internet Relay Chat, which many of you use for Wikipedia's day-to-day chat. — Adrian Lamo ·· 06:06, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: For the record, there are 843,000 Google hits[1] for his software. — Adrian Lamo ·· 06:08, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn bio -- Alpha269 14:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect Eggdrop. Adrian, thats why we have an entry for the software. Eggdrop already covers all the notable details. JoshuaZ 17:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Adrian Lamo. I think he is sufficiently notable. Eggdrop was/is huge. Cyde Weys 00:56, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep saying "author of an IRC script" is like saying Linus was "author of a minix modification". He was the initial author for a now ubiquitous open source program. For the record, it was written in C (not a scripting language by any means) and it 'supported' tcl scripting. Leorg 01:14, 8 March 2006 (UTC) (Users 6th edit. — Adrian Lamo ·· 02:58, 8 March 2006 (UTC))
• Comment per my prior delisting, my only vote in this is !=speedy anything. xaosflux ^Talk/_CVU 03:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete While Eggdrop is certainly notable his bio is not. Anything worthwhile can be merged into Eggdrop. If you asked someone who wrote the linux kernel they will tell you Linus Torvalds. If you ask someone who wrote Emacs they will tell you esr. If you ask someoen who wrote Eggdrop I doubt they would know. I believe your effigy is infact made of dried grass. kotepho 16:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment from the closing admin: The only notable thing about RP is that he invented Eggdrop. The rest of his bio is not only non-notable but also quite boring. Summarized information about RP should be added to Eggdrop if relevant. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 14:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

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.