Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raph Levien

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 00:45, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

I count two keeps, two redirects to Advogato, and two ambiguous (GRider's and Raph Levien's). Further discussion of a merge should take place at Talk:Raph Levien. —Korath (Talk) 00:45, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Raph Levien

What about this article illustrates encyclopedic notability? --GRider\^talk 22:05, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

GRider, please tell me what you think should happen to Raph Levien. It is your responsiblity as nominator to clearly tell your fellow Wikipedians what you think should happen as a result of the nomination. —Mar ka ci 2005-03-15 T 23:06 Z
He is already in the Avagato article, hasn'd done anything esle of note, redirect to Avagato--nixie 23:11, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Redirects are cheap, use them. —RaD Man (talk) 02:08, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The case for the article (Disclaimer: I started this article. Note User:GRider has not been willing to discuss the merits of this article informally)
- Raph Levien's work worth documenting on WP and which does not fall under the aegis of the Advogato article includes:
  1. His work on trust metrics, especially his idea of attack resitance, which turns out to be an interesting, multiply realised idea;
  2. His work on imaging software, and his leadership role in free software implementations, most notably his stewardship of the free branch of the Adobe Ghostscript software, and his libart implementation;
  3. He's a significant and widely recognised voice in the free software community, which has a lot to do with starting Advogato, but has faces outside Advogato.
- The article is not encyclopedic at the current time, but it potentially could be, as is appropriate for a stub. If you give me a chance it will grow. ---- Charles Stewart 10:26, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep Charles Stewart 11:08, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep if Charles promises to expand this bio-stub since he knows a lot about the person. Radiant _* 09:46, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)
This nomination is not correctly formed. Please read the instructions. Chris 03:00, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is proper form or not, but there are a few more accomplishments that may be relevant:
- In March 2000, I made a patent grant of my patent portfolio to the GPL community. This step was considered by some to be a good example, and may have been precedent for IBM's subsequent patent grant in January 2005.
- I have not only written a number of papers on innovations in halftoning technology, but the algorithms are used in Gimp-Print, as well as by several commercial customers.
- I did a significant amount of early work on the anonymous remailer network, including writing an early client (premail) and developing the first automated statistics-gathering tool.
- I submitted a Commodities Jurisdiction Request for the "RSA in 4 lines of perl" t-shirt, which played a small but notable part in the ultimately successful effort to relax crypto export regulations.
- I am at present the only other significant contributor of theorems to Metamath aside from its original author. Metamath is considered one of the Seventeen Provers of the World.

There is a fair amount of ongoing work which is not yet encyclopedic (including my current PhD research on splines, my design work on a next-generation Metamath, and some font designs in the queue, but my hope is that as this work progresses it will justify the continuing evolution of a wikipedia page. --Raph Levien 06:58, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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