Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris McKinstry

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The result of the debate was keep (nomination withdrawn). howcheng {chat} 21:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chris_McKinstry

Appears to be non-notable vanity. Google search just turns up his own page, a single article about him, and a few pages concerning various flamewars he's been in. If he has notability, it's as the author of Mindpixel, which appears to be a now-defunt AI project. I'm doing a PhD in AI, and I've never heard of the guy. Misterwindupbird 23:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment He may be notable for something - he got as far as BBC News [1] and also a website claiming he's a master hoaxter [2]. Caveat emptor. Dlyons493 Talk 23:32, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment The latter seems to just be a response to some usenet flame war, and as near as I could determine, the BBC interview is the only evidence of notoriety on the web. If having an article on a well-regarded news website qualifies as notability, then pretty much every scientist working in a "hot" field is notable. --Misterwindupbird 23:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination --Quarl 01:32, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep good amount of news coverage [3], [4] on this project. Newsbank shows articles on him in Australian papers + Newsday. -- JJay 03:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per JJay Jcuk 08:34, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

As per the discussion, I'll withdraw the nomination and remove the AfD from the page. He may not have a footprint in mainstream AI research, but he does seem to be notable for something other than flamewars. --Misterwindupbird 16:25, 28 December 2005 (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.