Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denis Dyack

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 no consensus – Gurch 15:35, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Denis Dyack

Notability of a small game development company executive Kickstart70-T-C 01:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep! Denis has been one of the few game company presidents that actually likes to interact with gamers via the IGN forums and IGN's Silicon Knights blog. He's also worked closely with other video game developers such as Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima. Why aren't they being considered for deletion? What about David Jaffe, Peter Molyneux, Will Wright or Cliff Bleszinski (CliffyB)? HGLatinBoy 05:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment This isn't about them, this is about proving Denis Dyack's notability and validity under WP:BIO. Further, this has nothing to do with how decent a fellow he is or how many other game developers chat with him. --Kickstart70-T-C 00:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable game executive Bwithh 02:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep only marginally notable, but there are much smaller (bigger?) nonentities to be deleted. Opabinia regalis 02:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong, hardcore gamer keep Dennis Dyack is a pretty big name in videogaming. If you think Silicon Knights is a small developer, then you've never played Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (which won tons of awards), or seen the massive hype for Too Human, which was just the cover article in Electronic Gaming Monthly, or read the dozens of news stories about what a big deal it is that SK is now an Xbox 360-exclusive developer after only making games for the Nintendo GameCube for years (in addition to Eternal Darkness and MGS: Twin Snakes, Too Human also started out as a Cube game). Dyack is no John Carmack, but he certainly deserves his own article. -- Kicking222 02:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Because of the above, I agree that Silicon Knights is well notable enough for having its own page, but those things are SK things, not Dyack things. What is notable about him in particular that makes him notable enough for his own page? I refer you to the living person section of WP:BIO. --Kickstart70-T-C 02:58, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Delete per nom; frankly, I very much doubt that even players of this game know anything more of the fellow than his name, and the vast majority of those probably don't give a tinker's damn. Of all the inventors of computer games I've played, only Sid Meyer's name comes to me (and the name's in the title of everything). RGTraynor 18:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, fails WP:CORP criteria, non-notable. --Terence Ong 03:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete, with potential to change to keep if more independent sources showing notability can be produced. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 03:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, I'm familiar with this guy and his name returns about 40,000 Google hits. That seems reasonably notable. Ace of Sevens 08:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep per Ace of Sevens. --Coredesat 09:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:BIO and being a fan of a game made by the company he works for isn't justification for keeping it. - Motor (talk) 10:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep[47K google hits], Article in [CNN] and mentioned everywhere I'd expect a notable person in the computer games industry to be mentioned - Peripitus (Talk) 12:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not a particularly notable individual even within the gaming world, in my opinion. michaelCurtis ^talk+ _{contributions} 17:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand: Thier are very few developers that are notable outside of thier respective comapnys, However Denis Dyak is indeed notable. Deathawk 20:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Henifin --Kickstart70-T-C 01:27, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete hope he gets the resume posted elsewhere. Tychocat 05:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expandMr. Dyack is a fairly notable face in the industry, at least worth wikifying.--Aresef 13:48, 11 June 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.