Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Mascitti

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The result was redirect to C++. Randykitty (talk) 12:58, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rick Mascitti

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Longtime unsourced BLP, no credible sources available Kharkiv07 (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ceradon (talk • contribs) 01:50, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Definitely not a hoax; numerous sources exist predating the article. Perhaps the most representative of many examples are the following:

Kelly-Bootle, Stan. (1995). The Computer Contradictionary, p. 32 [1]. Boston: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262611121.
Seed, Graham M. (2001). An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++, p. 4 [2]. Springer Science and Business Media. ISBN 9781852334505.

Whether that pushes the subject over the WP:N barrier is a different issue, but given the number of sources in academic writing on an obviously important programming language, I would lean toward Keep. Calamondin12 (talk) 02:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete without prejudice - Article does not establish notability. I can't establish establish notability based on the searches I've just done. This won't be hard to rebuild if an editor gets excited about this topic though none have in the past 9 years. ~KvnG 00:44, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:53, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to C++. While there are numerous sources confirming that he coined the name C++ there's not much suggesting he meets WP:BASIC. -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 22:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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