Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Ingalls

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete; redirecting to Smalltalk. Rhobite 06:44, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Dan Ingalls

Just what is so outstanding about this 9-word substub? Should it be deleted? Merged? Kept? GRider\^talk 20:29, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, and expand. 10,500+ Google hits. Megan1967 23:28, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or redirect. Right now he's listed as 1 of 4 named creators of smalltalk, as well as anonymous "others". If this is his only accomplishment then a redirect to smalltalk does the trick just fine. If he's otherwise notable for some reason and the article is expanded to establish this I may change my vote. -R. fiend 00:13, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Gamaliel 00:19, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, the small talk page already cites him as a creator, unless he's gone on to do something else notable there really isn't much to say about Mr. Ingallis. --nixie 00:23, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, founding smalltalk makes him notable, the article is a marginally useful start, not worth the time to delete. Kappa 02:34, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: He didn't "found" Smalltalk, but developed (and still develops) the definitive implementations. Apparently he was the first to implement pop-up (e.g. right-click) menus and overlapping GUI windows [1]. I'm not sure that's enough for an article. Gazpacho 04:16, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to SmallTalk. Radiant! 09:13, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, or at most redirect to Smalltalk; there's nothing whatsoever to merge. —Korath (Talk) 19:19, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

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