Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Ridpath

Mike Ridpath

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Despite the claims made, this person is not notable by our standards. I had cleaned this up some but a few editors re-added stuff without the benefit of knowing what WP:RS says. "References" added include such videos (?) as this ("All The Gold You Can Eat") and self-published books like this one (which doesn't even mention our subject, according to the "search inside" function). This person is so not-notable, and the article in previous versions (and its current version) so obviously unencyclopedic, that words really fail me--the article doesn't contain a single reference to a reliable source, and Google produces nothing at all. Drmies (talk) 17:09, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I don't find reliable sources, and the sources in the article mainly consist of name checks. In fact, I failed to find his name in some. LaMona (talk) 17:37, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 19:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 19:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 19:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as my searches found nothing better and this article is still questionably solidly notable. SwisterTwister talk 19:08, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Not sure if any of the above users are in information security but within the subculture of cypherpunks and hackers Ridpath is very well known and thats why the article was created in the first place. As he's listed as one of the top Social Engineers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security) for years and was removed due to not having a wiki so we tried to pull together what we could find on the internet about him and he's mentioned in multiple books and videos. The books you search when looking at the article are citing the products he create called Liquid Chi Jablestech talk8:47, 11 January 2016 (UTC)