The result was delete. -- Cirt ( talk) 00:11, 21 December 2010 (UTC) reply
I have tried a variety of searches and permutations for this person's name (Donald I. Barker, Donald Barker, Don Barker) and keywords (netscape, software), and I cannot come up with a single reliable source containing biographical information (per WP:GNG) or reviews of his work (per WP:AUTHOR). Nothing here indicates he would pass WP:PROF either. I gladly stand corrected by being shown reliable secondary sources on this person and his work. Drmies ( talk) 15:44, 13 December 2010 (UTC) reply
<--Let me take just one of the questions, which I think stands for all: "Should we exclude individuals from Wikipedia based on the formal "notability" requirements, even when unpublished empirical evidence exists for anyone to check that the person is notable?" Yes. That is how Wikipedia works--see Wikipedia:Verifiability, and its opening sentence, "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. That is, whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." Drmies ( talk) 22:38, 14 December 2010 (UTC) reply
<--This is (what in philosophy) we call an insular argument. Wikipedia defines verifiability as published reliable sources, hence, one can not be notable without published reliable sources. There is no way to win such an argument, unless Wikipedia adopts a more scientific definition of verifiability, such as empirical evidence that can be demonstrated repeatedly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhilipJFry2999 ( talk • contribs)