Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sage Weil

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The result was delete. Neil ☎ 20:57, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sage Weil

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Suggesting deletion because this person is not notable and there are no reliable, non-trivial third party publications about the subject. Weil possibly played a part in founding a company (along with what appears to arguably be 3 other "founders") but there are no reliable third party sources on THAT either, therefore I stand behind the delete point of view. Burntsauce 15:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. He created the first practical Webring (although he didn't invent the concept), and there's reliable third-party recognition of that: salon.com (see page 3 particularly), New York Times, The Atlantic. There are other news hits from "sage weil" webring, but they're subscription-only. Thomjakobsen 19:44, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete or merge with webring per WP:BLP1E. —David Eppstein 14:49, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete WP:BLP1E applies. Weil is notable only for the single act of creating the first Web ring, which is already adequately covered in Webring. The rest of his life need not be documented and we should presume in favor of privacy per WP:BLP. --Malcolmxl5 18:19, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The only source gives a trivial mention of him. Not notable as a professor. Notability of his invention is not inherited. Bearian 17:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

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