Talk:Dominic Giampaolo

Notability

Why exactly does this guy deserve a page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.126.94 (talk) 19:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

While the book about it is out of print, the BFS has been a reference design for many new file system designs, partially via the File System Construction Kit. He also discovered the infamous E-80 bug in Pentium II & III CPU's. --Jamiew (talk) 20:02, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Notability issue again

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dominic_Giampaolo&diff=prev&oldid=412085798

I would once again be happy to defend Giampaolo's impact on modern file system design among other notable accomplishments. If the article does not make this clear, please speak up to as much. --Jamiew (talk) 16:28, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

The article shows that he is a good filesystem designer/programmer. He is good at his job. He has done a lot of work on a filesystem whose market share is negligible. Citations show that he is mentioned in some BeOS-focused publications: a tiny niche group. Plus one side-mention of his name in an interview with someone else in OS News. That is not evidence of notability! Can you find full-length interviews with him or other significant coverage in the wider press? Perchloric (talk) 03:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

When you say "a filesystem whose market share is negligible" are you talking about BFS or HFS+? Because if you are talking about the latter, then I question the suggestion that the market share of Macs/iPods/iPhones & iPads (all of which use HFS+ or derivatives of same) is negligible.

I also question your suggestion that people have to have significant coverage in the wider press to be considered notable. The criteria as I understood it, was that they had coverage in their subject area. In the subject area of filesystems, Dominic Giampaolo is widely known as the developer of BFS and someone who was hired by Apple to work on their filesystems. We have a number of sources in the article, and a number of sources are plainly available with even a cursory search on Google. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 14:27, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure where you get the "coverage in their subject area" criterion. If you make the subject areas sufficiently narrow, everyone will be notable! If we go by the criteria for creative professionals, he'd be notable if he had "created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work". As you implicitly agreed, the BeOS filesystem is not a well-known or significant body of work. And there is no indication in the article that he played a major role in the creation of HFS+ (are there articles mentioning him in widely-read Apple-related publications?). So at this point he does not look notable by WP criteria. Perchloric (talk) 20:50, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

BeOS in general is a historically important and well-known body of work. BFS (and thus Giampaolo) are a critical part of that work. People interested in the history of computing and operating systems would be remiss to find no information about BeOS, BFS or the core people on Wikipedia simply because they were considered too niche. --Jamiew (talk) 17:30, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

BeOS has never been a widely-known body of work, it was always a niche product. It may deserve a WP article but that doesn't mean that everyone who worked on it deserves one. People interested in niche topics certainly don't have the right to expect to find in-depth coverage of them in WP. I think the article needs stronger sources that show real notability. Perchloric (talk) 22:35, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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