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brian d foy

Non-notable bio. CDThieme 01:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Um ... says who? That's nonsense. He's a very well-known figure in significant communities. He also satisfies the requirement "Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more." (His most recent book sold 13,000 copies last quarter alone.) Go away KTHX. Pudgenet 02:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete nn bio, he helped to tweak a computer book that has Randal L. Schwartz as the original sole author. I'm sure in the annals of the Earth he will be duly enshrined. Ruby 02:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

You have no idea what you are talking about. He wrote about a quarter of the new, and completely revised, edition. Plus he has been published multiple times in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more (TPJ was 10,000). Plus, he is writing a third or more of Intermediate Perl (which will surely have a circulation of well over 5,000), and the new edition of Mastering Perl (ditto). What's the point of having notability guidelines if you're just going to ignore them? Pudgenet 02:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Sometimes we gotta think outside the box. Ruby 03:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

And your thinking is, what? You hold a personal grudge? Or something less substantive? Pudgenet 03:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I apologize BTW for being a bit blunt and abrasive. I have a massive head cold and am irritable, and this is just annoying. Pudgenet 03:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. His publications seem to be notable enough, if 5000+ audience is the relevant criterion. Skud 04:47, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The main thing that makes it for him is being chief editor of The Perl Review. 27,000 Google hits for that publication. Durova 05:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Notable person in open-source software communities, has been published half a dozen times in Dr. Dobbs Journal ] (audited circulation 120,000), he has contributed significantly to the Perl programming language. Google reports 86,000 hits on the quoted phrase "brian d foy" and he is listed as author on two books in amazon. (As a disclaimer, I have written an article for the Perl Review ], the quarterly journal edited by brian.) DAllen\ 05:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. brian is definitely a notable leader, author, speaker, and contributor to the Perl community. His efforts as a founder for Perl Mongers user groups led to the creation of a global user group community (175+ active user groups, ~780,000 matches in google for site:pm.org) Stennie 06:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Not only for all the reasons listed above, but also because brian's contribution to the Perl community is steadily increasing. --alessio 08:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep For all reasons listed above, seems like brian is a rather significant contributor to Perl. I think he meets notability guidelines. -- Samir |Talk ∙ Contribs | 10:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep O'Reilly author and notable editor. And stuff. Note: this is not a Geogre's Law failure. Just zis  Guy, you know? / AfD? 15:51, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep bdfoy is one of the top 20 names in the Perl community. Chris Dolan 16:01, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as easily meeting our notability guidelines. Please do some research before bringing things to AfD. Turnstep 16:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• KEEP. matt.
• Keep meets WP:BIO - Liberatore(T) 17:19, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as notable. —Quarl 2006-01-27 21:35Z
• Strong keep meets WP:BIO Nick Catalano (Talk) 00:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Meets notability guidelines Thomas 21:04, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep bdfoy is a very good author regarding Perl - ]
• Keep: sufficent notability established. Jonathunder 19:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: sufficiently notable. de vogon 19:56 29 januari 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: sufficiently notable. lanta 20:35 29 january 2006 (UTC)