Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stefano Zacchiroli

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The result was keep. JForget 02:20, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stefano Zacchiroli

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Only claim to notability is leadership of the Debian project. To me, this alone is not enough. No independent references are given. But I have reversed my CSD deletion in order to give this a chance at wider input into what I see as the key question, whether that one position is enough to grant notability. TexasAndroid (talk) 03:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
keep has articles on him in several IT news sources like iTWire, and linuxtoday. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:36, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, ~~he's stepped down from the leadership position[1]~~ --Nuujinn (talk) 10:41, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- What are you talking about? That link looks like it just describes the election three months ago? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 11:07, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Oops, you're right, I read it completely backwards. --Nuujinn (talk) 12:42, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Debian is one of the major Linux distributions. Being a leader at some point on its development ensures notability. Pxtreme75 (talk) 07:17, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: there is coverage in Gnews and other sources like [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], etc. etc. Dewritech (talk) 12:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: as per references, here is another one: itwire.com. He has been elected just a few months ago, I expect to see more coverage during his term than before ... he is scheduled for a panel interview LinuxTag 2010 [7], and giving the keynote for the mini-debconf there [8]. --87.174.111.142 (talk) 18:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - or Merge into an article on (all) the Debian Project Leaders. --Chire (talk) 23:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: being a Debian Project Leader is notable, imho. 190.189.227.89 (talk) 22:08, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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