Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Erasmus Smums

—LrdChaos (talk) 18:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the quote into Computers per several suggestions, and copied the relevant edit history to Talk:Computers. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:02, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Erasmus Smums
No intro, source, or Wikipedia article. Less than 100 Ghits.— Jusjih 16:30, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep if cleaned up, properly introduced, etc. (and I guess I volunteer to do this if the page creator doesn't). Smums appears to be a reasonably well-known expert on computer interfaces (in fact, the single quote on the page appears on the book flap of this book). He also appears to have made some other remarks that might be worth collecting. --Ubiquity 17:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless we get much better justification for the notability of this person and verifiability of his quotes. I got 30 unique Google hits on the full name (20 for English-only websites), which gives him far less of a Google presence than unnotable me. I haven't heard of this expert, nor have I noticed anything yet that identifies him as anything but someone who Raskin acknowledged in this book, The Humane Interface (2000). The quotes I've found from him so far have no sources except for the Jef Raskin book-flap quote cited in the Amazon.de page Ubiquity linked to. This has the feel of a neat quote from an otherwise unnotable computer professional, which probably describes a significant fraction of Wikimedians. I think we need something more tangible than a book credit and quote by someone else for an article. But the sole quote is arguably appropriate for Computers, especially since it would be a welcome addition to its few properly sourced quotes. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:01, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete after transferring quote to Computers. - InvisibleSun 22:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and move quote to Computers, per Jeffq. ~ UDScott 22:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and agree with Jeff - move quote to Computers -- Herby  talk thyme 11:18, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep somewhere - merge would be fine - as it's such a good quote. Tyrenius 04:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I'd have thought he was notable enough and as Tyrenius says it's a good quote.--Poetlister 17:09, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Jeffq's thinking. Adding the single remarkable quote to Computers is for the best. I do not think this subject is notable enough to have this single quote be the basis for a separate article. FloNight 16:36, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per notability, though save the quote.--Cato 00:01, 5 August 2007 (UTC)