Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Y Combinator

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The result of the debate was redirected content. Sasquatch↔讲↔看 05:58, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Y Combinator

Not-notable and advertising - Dv 14:35, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Google shows 104 results for Y Combinator +"venture capital", plus this article is indeed slanted toward advertisement. --Several Times 14:50, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not-notable Incognito 17:01, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Two of the more notable folks connected to the history of the Internet have started a V.C. firm. That alone is notable. The rest is simply a description of the company. I would remove the hipster programmer quote and expand a bit where possible, though. -Harmil 16:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• delete and redirect to Fixed point combinator, since the Y combinator is an important and famous (to us lambda calculus nerds) example of one. Brighterorange 17:51, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep based on notability of people involved. Gazpacho 02:47, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (Note that I am the original creator of the article in question.) I'm sorry if the page seems to read like advertising; I have no connection with the company. I created the page because of the notability of Paul Graham and Robert Tappan Morris, two of the founders of the company. --Schoen 05:14, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

With regard to the Y combinator/Y Combinator redirect question: Note that Y combinator is already (properly) a redirect to Fixed point combinator -- it has the correct capitalization for a Wikipedia article about the combinator itself, whereas Y Combinator has the correct capitalization for an article about the company. There is also disambiguation text at the top to refer people to the Fixed point combinator article. There are currently no inaccurate links to the article about the company. I would also be perfectly happy with a move to Y Combinator (company) if disambiguation appears to be an issue. --Schoen 05:14, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete and redirect. I would argue that they are notable only because sites like Slashdot keep talking about them. The way I see it is:

Graham wrote two books on the programming language Lisp and created a store (in lisp) which he subsequently sold to Yahoo! (I believe they then switched to another application written in C, giving the reason that they couldn't find enough experienced Lisp programmers, but I'm unable to find references). He writes rants, but nobody in the industry or academia seems to take take them seriously (Lisp, or rather Scheme, is usually used only to teach programming. Most of the research is done with typed functional languages like ML and Haskell, and most of the "real work" is done with established imperative languages). He says that he will create a language called Arc and it will be the best thing ever, but he has yet to produce anything.

Morris accidentally created the first internet virus, and later became a small-time academic.

I don't see how these two people make an apparently vapor-ware company notable. - Dv 07:08, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

The company isn't vaporware, it's currently running 10 startups.

Morris is not famous merely because of Slashdot fandom. He is frequently cited (and not just for the worm) in computer security circles. Gazpacho 01:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep AaronSw 03:34, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Note AaronSw works for a startup funded by Y Combinator, so is an interested party.
• Strong Delete Hosterweis (talk) 10:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not advertising, no matter who added it Adamn 10:32, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Ads JacksonBrown 10:33, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This is not notable. Indrian 16:08, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Interesting project, but there are lots of interesting projects. Article comes off as an advert.
• Delete. Notability not established. Current content is an ad. Nabla 22:22, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

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