Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gernot Heiser

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 established WP:PROF, note that there are four seperate articles by Heiser used as references in L4 microkernel family. Gnangarra 14:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gernot Heiser

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Spammy autobiography. Guy (Help!) 15:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd 16:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. No independent WP:RS to indicate passing WP:BIO. Leuko 16:22, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Bduke 22:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Weak keep. I removed from the "publications of note" section several items that were clearly not publications of note, but two were left, both papers having more than 50 cites each in Google scholar. To me this seems a borderline case for WP:PROF — he's clearly a successful academic, but I don't see the evidence for him being a star of his field. But I'd rather err on the side of keeping. —David Eppstein 03:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, as per user above me. Seems notable enough, but only barely. Lankiveil 10:47, 16 April 2007 (UTC).
• Strong Keep, Gernot's one of the main guys behind the L4 microkernel family, he organises a significant share of the funding for Computer Science research in Australia[1] [2], he runs a medium size technology research company of about 20 employees, a university research team and an Australian government research team both with about 10 employees or PhD students. These teams are extremely active and churn out a huge amount of research and code in relation to microkernels, power management, virtualisation, distributed systems and ia64 Linux. He's an outspoken senior member of the large school of computer science and engineering at UNSW and is frequently the guy consulted by Australian newspapers about operating systems, even when it's a little outside his subject area. He also frequently speaks at operating systems conferences worldwide. I have no idea what possessed him to write an article about himself, but if one is interested in experimental operating systems he probably fits into the picture somewhere.Scarlet 12:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Scarlet's findings. Notable in his field. --Oakshade 08:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I agree with David Eppstein, but I prefer to err the other way. This ("However, he is not among the University's "Scientia Professors", and so is not considered by UNSW to be of "true international eminence in research") is an odd sentence for a WP bio. Pete.Hurd 20:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Gernot frequently serves in program committees of international (IEEE, ACM, USENIX, etc.) conferences on operating systems, computer architecture, embedded, real-time and distributed systems and thereby clearly meets criterion 2 of WP:PROF. Uwe Dannowski 07:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC) — Uwe Dannowski (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

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.