Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Dillon

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The result was redirect to DragonFly BSD. Courcelles 23:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Dillon

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Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG and fails to offer other evidence of notability as might be allowed under WP:ANYBIO. Sources offered are the subject's home page and the transcripts of two interviews with the subject. Interviews can sometimes be WP:SECONDARY to the extent they contain the interviewer's own thinking, interpretation, analysis or evaluation but such is not the case here. These are very simple interviews with simple questions and long answers by the subject. Every bit of actual content is the subject telling his own story in his own words, making it WP:PRIMARY and unsuitable for establishing notability. Further, Googling turned up nothing useful. The subject's name is mentioned in connection with DragonFly in various sources, but little more than his name is ever given. Msnicki (talk) 15:08, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment As article creator, I concede it's pretty darn marginal. The world agrees. Redirect to DragonFly BSD? - David Gerard (talk) 15:11, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to DragonFly BSD per David Gerard.

Delete - Non-notable, fails to meet any reason for inclusion. BTW The DragonFly BSD article suggested for merge looks like it could go. Everything is from the company directly, a PR announcement, or from a blog, and a search doesn't appear to find anything else. I'll leave it for now, but suggest it be looked at. Caffeyw (talk) 23:48, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to DragonFly BSD. I thought it would be pretty easy to dig up some references for Dillon, but there seems to be almost nothing. He experienced a bit of notability in 2012 when AMD confirmed that he found a bug in the Opteron processor ([1][2]), but that's about it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:42, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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