Talk:Rich Skrenta

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How its that an article about a person doesn’t content such important information like, the date or place of birth? Someone should search some info about this Rich Skrenta —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.88.21.248 (talk • contribs)

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This person appears to be WP:BLP1E --- the coverage WP wants is for Elk Cloner, not for Rich Skrenta.

--- tqbf 03:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Uhh....Rich Skrenta was also the founder of the Open Directory Project and Topix LLC (one of the top 15 news sites in the world). I would think that qualifies for notability alone. Newtman 08:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Surely, "one of the top 15 news sites in the world" merits coverage. That does not mean this person does. Many of the largest companies in the world, companies who, along with their CEOs, appear in the news on a weekly basis, do not find their CEOs covered in WP. Can you find w reliable source writing about Richard Skrenta (not TOPIX.NET, with quotes from Skrentra and others) that isn't about Elk Cloner? --- tqbf 17:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Also covered in TechCrunch about Blekko.[1] Considering his involvement in many well known projects (TASS, ODP, Elk Cloner...) he certainly is notable. It's like saying Gary Kildall isn't notable because the coverage of him is about CP/M. // Liftarn (talk)

Gary Kildall is more notable than CP/M; moreover, both Kildall and CP/M are independently notable. The same isn't the case here. --- tqbf 19:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I would disagree. Skrenta is notable because of the various thing he has been involed in yes. If he hadn't done anything he wouldn't be notable, but now he has. 65,500 google hits. // Liftarn (talk)