Talk:Eric Meyer

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Eric Meyer was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP

First sentence: "Eric A. Meyer has been working on the web since 1990's, and is internationally known as a Cascading Style Sheets guru"

Even though he has written books on CSS, I don't think he's notable enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

Acegikmo1 23:27, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. -JCarriker 23:39, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC) After reviewing points below and doing some of my own research, I have decided to change my vote to Keep. -JCarriker 23:12, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition has an Amazon.com sales rank of 1,085, pretty impressive even when you consider that Amazon sales are biassed toward computer and Internet books. The article is way too promotional and needs to be severely toned down. BTW did he actually contribute to the design of CSS? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:58, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, he's not famous enough. Wyllium 03:12, 2004 Oct 9 (UTC)
• Keep. He's famous enough for me and he's a published author. Just because he's not very widely trumpeted doesn't mean somebody wouldn't want to know about him. KEeeep. Cookiecaper 03:34, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable in his field of expertise. --Viriditas 06:36, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Notable. Keep. --Slowking Man 07:10, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. He's even noted by Apple.--GroundedZero 10:08, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Certainly notable in his field. Keep. —Rory ☺ 16:37, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. Just north of the notability border. --Improv 19:15, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Notable enough, keep —siroχo 20:39, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep; notable enough. Posiduck 02:10, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. This person's obviously notable — just look at the bibliography, for a start. Please research the topic a bit before voting to delete a well written article. Factitious 02:14, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • I don't think that last comment is fair. Listing something on VfD is calling for a public hearing to find out whether a page should be deleted, and hopefully bring in people who know more about the topic than the person posting the listing. Eric Meyer is not a household word. The article when listed on VfD [1] did look like vanity and/or promotion and was certainly up for discussion. It took about a day before people who really knew who Meyer is weighed in. Up to that it was just vague remarks based on what was actually in the article. Something doesn't have to be proved deletable beyond a reasonable doubt before it is listed on VfD. The purpose of VfD is to find out whether something should be deleted. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 10:43, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • That's a good point, and I take back my comment above. The article as it was then does look pretty questionable, and I agree that there was justification for listing it on VfD. Acegikmo1, I apologize for wrongly criticizing you about this. If I'd done some research myself on the history of the page, I would have realized that it wasn't obviously notable before. Factitious 15:38, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
• K The very fact that his name turns up repeatedly on the W3C website outside of the mailing lists [2] should be enough. Chris 00:47, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep Cabalamat 21:38, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

End archived discussion -- Graham ☺ | Talk 01:27, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I know this has long past, but Eric Meyer is a God amonst web developers. -b 22:19, 7 October 2006 (UTC)