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non notable publisher. completely unsourced. ⇒ SWATJester 19:45, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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Established in 1982, Eastgate has published many of the key works in new media. They've been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, and most other major newspapers. They're regularly taught at dozens of universities throughout the world. The nomination for deletion comes out of the blue, without discussion and without making any effort to improve or extend the article. Keep. MarkBernstein 23:11, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

It's not incumbent on me to improve the article, it's incumbent on the creator to make it sourced and verifiable. ⇒ SWATJester 01:45, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Strong keep Despite the undeveloped state of the article, Eastgate was important in the deveopment of pre-web hypertext. The nominator claims no expertise in the history of hypertext pre-web. Since he is a legal intern for Wikimedia, I refer him to Mike Godwin, Wikimedia's current legal counsel, who in around 1995 thought that Eastgate style hypertext was sufficiently interesting to invite me to demo it to a class he was teaching at the time on New Media. --Pleasantville 23:35, 12 August 2007 (UTC) aka Kathryn Cramer

• Comment It should be noted that the above editor has a close relationship with Eastgate Systems. Secondly, Mike Godwin, nor myself or my position have a thing to do with this deletion debate. I should note that the above editor has provided absolutely no actual rationale for keeping, nor any sources for the article, nor any evidence of notability, other than WP:ILIKEIT, and a fallacious appeal to authority. ⇒ SWATJester 01:42, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand how you can initiate a deletion debate and comment upon it and have nothing to do with it. Please explain. OF COURSE I have a relationship with Eastgate -- I say so. Do you know anything about this subject, i.e. pre-web hypertext? --Pleasantville 01:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• Comment I do not need to. No special knowledge is needed to edit wikipedia ⇒ SWATJester 02:13, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

No more damning comment could be adduced by wikipedia's enemies than "no special knowledge is needed" to excise articles from wikipedia. To a reader of scholarly or inqusiitive mind, no further edit or discussion of notability is required, as any discussion of the history of literary hypertext or hypertext fiction will establish the facts. To intelligent readers, I commend Robert Coover's familiar NYTBR essays (1993, 1994), George P. Landow's HYPERTEXT: THE CONVERGENCE OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY (Johns Hopkins Press, now in its 3rd edition), Michael Joyce OF TWO MINDS, J. Yellowlees Douglas' THE END OF BOOKS, Chris Funkhouser's brand-new PREHISTORIC DIGITAL POETRY (University of Alabama Press, 2007), Kate Hayles's WRITING MACHINES (MIT, 2005), or indeed just about any book, monograph, or essay on the history of hypertext fiction and new media in the past 20 years.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by MarkBernstein (talk • contribs).

This article is not about hypertext. Establishing the notability of hypertext has nothing to do with the complete lack of verifiability or notability in this article.⇒ SWATJester 03:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Mark's comment was towards establishing the notability of Eastgate in the hypertext field, please read what he actually wrote. It assumes for the sake of argument that it is not necessary to establish the notability of hypertext itself, which you yourself note is appropriate. 203.30.247.18 07:50, 13 August 2007 (UTC) .. (oops, forgot to log in first)

'Keep - the company is notable, even if the page does not currently reflect that. What is needed is more content towards that end. Calling for it's deletion isn't the way to do that, surely? It has not been sufficiently established that Eastgate is non-notable, only that you don't have any special knowledge on the matter -- absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. That said, the page does need content supporting Eastgate's notability. Ericscheid 08:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

If you dislike Misplaced Pages's "anyone can edit" policies, you need not stay here. Citizendium is that way. ⇒ SWATJester 03:53, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep if documented If the books cited do talk about this publisher in a substantial way, then they would be sufficient to show notability. Mark, could you supply page numbers? DGG (talk) 04:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Keep - I'm not really sure why this debate is happening. Misplaced Pages policy states 'This page in a nutshell: Material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source.' Picking through the page I can't see it is any different to the Springer_Verlag entry. It's also the case that the academic community centred around ACM SIGWEB / and Web research in general, without doubt see Eastgate as a notable publisher. --Siharper 08:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC) This template must be substituted.

• SPA account: Account was created today, and has 4 contributions, 3 of which are to this AFD. This account is likely to be an SPA or a sockpuppet. ⇒ SWATJester 12:37, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

The above-mentioned edit was signed by Simon Harper. Professor Simon Harper is a Lecturer in the Information Management Group of the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, and is the conference chairman of the ACM Hypertext Conference 2007, to be held at the Manchester Museum in September 2007. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~sharper/ provides contact information and a CV. Harper is a familiar name to any researcher in the field. MarkBernstein MarkBernstein 13:56, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Denny, you're being rude. Why is it that anyone with expertise in this area who cares about the subject should be presumed to already be a member of wikipedia? It would be more polite to ask for further information about the person commenting than to make unwarranted accusations. Please assume good faith.

Your invitation that we all leave and go to Citizendium is also a breach of appropriate decorum, and seems to me to constitute a deliberate and intentional attempts to disrupt the usability of Misplaced Pages for its editors. --Pleasantville 13:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

strong keep notable, in fact very clearly changed the world with storyspace and tinderbox. that they are a leading publisher hypertext fiction should not be dismissed lightly either. the lack of verifiability is moot, as the knowledge documented there is widely known. oh... and if you wanted the article improved, then you should have marked it for improvement. if you want verifiable then mark it as such for a few months first and contact its prior editors. AFD is not an improvement process. --Buridan 13:25, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

• Strong keep - anybody familiar with the field knows about the notability of the company. Buridan, you and I both know this stuff, but under Misplaced Pages's verifiability standards (which are not optional), somebody ought to dig out the texts cited above and get some page numbers to satisfy the issues raised; you're right, though, about improvement tagging rather than AfD nomination. Swat, you ought to catch your breath and reread the essays about civility in the Misplaced Pages project; your vendetta against all matters related to certain people is really reaching unreasonable levels and damaging the interests of this project, which is bigger than you. --Orange Mike 13:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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