Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dick Hardt

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The result was keep. 1ne 07:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dick Hardt

Procederial nomination, contested PROD. Yanksox 01:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

• FYI, LoriP is Dick Hardt's PR manager -- see http://www.sxip.com. This is a shill page.
• Weak keep, has citations, seems to pass WP:BIO. (For another one, here's a Wired News article that mentions Identity 2.0: 2005 article. Crystallina 03:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• This is a fairly new and rather revolutionary field of digital identity that Dick has helped foster. Many companies are now involved with the "Identity 2.0" user-centric movement besides Sxip, including Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell and IBM to name a few. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LoriP (talk • contribs)
  • The number of google results on Identity 2.0 now numbers 321,000. A small sampling of other citations on Identity 2.0 over the past year: from MIT Technology Review Identity 2.0: An open-source identity management system could change the way we share personal information over the Internet, from ZDNet Why Web 2.0 needs Identity and Identity 1.x: Microsoft Live ID and Google Accounts and from Web Services Journal How Can We Best Make "The Writeable Web" A Responsible Place?, and Gartner Research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LoriP (talk • contribs)
• Keep, developed and marketed some very widely used software. Where's the article on ActiveState? Gazpacho 01:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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