Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jörg Schilling

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 was keep. - Mailer Diablo 04:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jörg Schilling

The article about Jörg Schilling does not meet the notability requirements set forth in WP:BIO. Smorsh37 23:16, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Delete - Doesn't seem to meet the requirements of notability on WP:BIO.Robert 23:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep Seems notable sounding from article. People Powered 23:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep - Author/maintainer of important Linux CD burning program, cdrtools. Also involved in recent controversy. Hydra3 23:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep - cdrtools is very important package in the Linux world, and the recent (and ongoing) controversy around it and Schilling is important.--SirNuke 01:14, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

As the article is now, it does not state anything about cdrtools or Schilling's notability. It seems that Schilling may be important, but the article does not give any indication of that. The article should be redone. Somebody should at least add why he is notable, especially relating to cdrtools. Also, the references need to be used in the article, not just a list at the end. Smorsh37 02:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Hunh? Did you read the article? It certainly does mention Schilling's role as author of Cdrtools. As for the external links, my understanding is that one does not normally put external links within the body of the article.Bill 04:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Rework & keep. I think Schilling is notable-- the article just needs to be reworked a bit to show that. A Google search with his name and cdrecord yields close to 90,000 hits. Nephron  T|C 06:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep. Schilling is both notable and notorious. —Neuropedia 16:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep. Relevant to cdrtools and cdrkit as well as being notorious among the Free Software/Open Source community. -- EmperorBMA|話す 02:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep the fellow is significant in having written a very popular program in linux and the controversy generated when we switched licenses. Brianski 08:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep The whole debate is very notable and there's even a recent Slashdot story about him getting kicked off Debian's development team : [1] I-baLL 01:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep The article (as it is now, at least) is fine enough. Since somebody fixed the cdrtools link problem, I am willing to admit that Jörg appears to be notable enough. However, I still think that there should be more references in the text of the article. Note, Bill, that I said 'references,' not 'external links.' These are appropriately at the end of the article. Smorsh37 03:12, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 15:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep author of a notable software package (yayyy!)... and the guy who forced every freaking CD-burning Linux user on the planet to compile scsi emulation in their 2.4 kernels (gaaah!). There's Random OSS Developers, and then there's people who stick in mind, for good or bad (in this case both). Notable enough in my opinion. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 09:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy keep per WP:SNOW, clearly this person is notable. RFerreira 22:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - I don't see how the claim that he's not notable holds water. He's been a very notable open source software guy for decades. Georgewilliamherbert 04:44, 17 September 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.