Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Haitani

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The result was delete. — Scientizzle 15:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rob Haitani

Unsourced (blogs generally do not count) - And I don't see how being a "GUI god" is notable. I just don't see how Haitani is notable. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete: A blog is not a valid reference. Internet sites mentioning this person appear to be advertisments. TheScotch (talk) 07:08, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete: If he had founded Handspring with Hawkins and Dubinski he would most certainly be notable. However, that was Ed Colligan, not this joker. This is a "hoaxvertisement." mmmm, hang on, it looks like he was Handspring's director of marketing, a fairly significant position [1]. Still, there's no nontrivial coverage in reliable sources, so it should be deleted. <eleland/talkedits> 08:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete vain vanity in vain. JuJube (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:51, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Delete: has a few mentions and interviews here and there in print [2], but he seems to be cited or interviewed mostly in the context of the Palm design and articles about the Palm Pilot. So to me he would be mentionable in articles about the Palm and its history but not necessarily a separate article because I have not found any secondary sources talking about him and his contributions. Even the Designing Interactions book is interviewing him mostly as a way of describing the design process at palm and not because the designers were particularly notable, that books claims to use interviews primarily instead of specific viewpoints to convey the diversity of design approaches and process - not particularly to highlight notable designers. - Owlmonkey (talk) 00:57, 1 April 2008 (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.