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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 21:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher Taber[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG. There is indication of notability of the company he is CEO of, however the sources are primarily about the company, not about the person. Little, if any, coverage of the person independent of the firm. Relation to a notable topic does not establish inherited notability. Article should be deleted or redirected. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 16:10, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 17:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• this isn't substantial coverage of him? Strong Keep. FloridaArmy (talk) 22:43, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@FloridaArmy: did you actually read the source? The article is about Kevin Horton, an engineer working in the company. Taber is mentioned twice in the article. Again, this is only passing mention of Taber which does not establish notability. Horton is a different story. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 07:17, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to parent company. FloridaArmy (talk) 12:13, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jake Brockman: @FloridaArmy: Taber is highly notable within the video game industry for being the only person openly advocating and materializing the preservation of classic video game systems with FPGA technology. Without Taber, there wouldn't be any of this. I've posted a few more articles to help illustrate this on the main page. Also reorganized a few things more appropriately based on the above comments. It's important to be aware of the video game preservation movement and FPGA technology to understand how important he is in these categories. If there is any better way to showcase this on the article, please suggest. These articles are the most useful in terms of supporting Taber's notability: ^{[1][2] [3][4]}NESphreak (talk) 12:52, 1 March 2018 (UTC)NESphreak[reply]

@NESphreak: those sources are similar to the ones in the article. They are about the firm or the product, not really about the person. To be relevant for the bio of an individual, you should be able to learn something about the individual: where was he born, where did he go to school, what's his academic or professional career, philanthropy he is involved it, family/personal stuff etc. All we learn from the articles is related to the company/product. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 18:51, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jake Brockman: Each of these things, details about his family: "Taber attributes his steadfast adherence to this enthusiast mentality to his late teenage years, which he spent re-evaluating the games of his childhood with his younger brother. Once they depleted their considerable collection of Genesis games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Streets of Rage — Taber describes himself as “more of a Sega kid than anything” — the Tabers decided to browse eBay to check out the games they missed. “I remember thinking, ‘Well, what if there were other games that were even better?’ And that just fed into the hobby,” he recalls. He points to the oft-overlooked late Genesis cult classic Ristar as an ideal example of this sort of legwork paying off. “That set the precedent for me,” he says. “That’s when I first encountered the enthusiast community, reading about forgotten gems like Ristar. I joined those communities. I was hooked.”" where he went to school: "Once the boxes piled up enough, Taber was selling more than he was buying, and making a fair bit of change at it. It was only then, in college in Montana, that he realized the commercial viability of his hobby. Eventually, he took the plunge, opening a small online storefront. But it was when he started futzing with the electronic components inside his prized plastic that he started to make a name for himself." are included in the Polygon article, the article is literally written about him. The other articles are filled with information directly from him about his company and advocacy for preserving video game history (GQ article, SCMP article, Polygon article)NESphreak (talk) 08:42, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Horton may be notable, but Taber clearly is not.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:46, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. Izno (talk) 23:07, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete -- nn CEO; affiliate with one company Analogue (company) and a promotional CV. Notability is not inherited from the company, and there's nothing better. I would *oppose* a redirect to the company, as I'm not a fan of BLP redirects to corporations. Companies may get acquired, be renamed, etc. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:23, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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