Deletion of Mitch Ratcliffe

Comment: I think this does pass  since there is nontrivial (although not in-depth) coverage by multiple independent sources. The sources discussed above all seem to fall essentially into this category: when his opinions are quoted or his business matters are mentioned, these are, to me, examples of nontrivial coverage. In this case there seems to be enough of it to pass . I tried to do a filtered googlenews search to exclude articles written by him and still got 138 hitshttp://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=%22Mitch+Ratcliffe%22+-%22by+Mitch+Ratcliffe%22. Even if a half of them are excludable, that is still quite a bit. A few quotes from these. From Onlamphttp://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/4393:''This session, featuring Doc Searls, Cameron Barrett, Mitch Ratcliffe, and Halley Suitt was definitely about blogging, mostly about politics, and not at all about effectiveness. Mitch Ratcliffe played the role of the voice of reason, emphasizing the role of blogs as just another publishing tool. He also pointed out that blogs fall into the "horse-race" style of campaign coverage just as much as the mainstream media (Trippi's "broadcast politics").''  From Time Magazinehttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980771,00.html:''Says Mitch Ratcliffe, editor of the newsletter Digital Media: "I think consumers are going to be unimpressed for a decade or more."'' From Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/y2k/stories/inatl_090999.htm:''"This is a big myth," said Mitch Ratcliffe, who runs a year 2000 Web site for publisher Ziff-Davis Inc. "A properly formatted date field will not generate 9999 on September 9 under any circumstances."'' From New York Timeshttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E6DF1631F934A15751C1A961958260:''"It's the first one-man war on the Internet," said Mitch Ratcliffe, a longtime Internet analyst who is editorial director of eCommerce Alert, a newsletter on electronic commerce. "Everyone on the 'Net is fascinated."'' From Los Angeles Timeshttp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/44900462.html?dids=44900462:44900462&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+26%2C+1998&author=Helm%2C+Leslie%3B+Piller%2C+Charles&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=THE+CUTING+EDGE%3B+Microsoft%2C+Intel+Still+a+Power+Couple%3B+Despite+Occasional+Tiffs%2C+the+'Wintel'+Duopoly+Remains+a+PC+Force+to+Be+Reckoned+With&pqatl=google:''"If anything, they are consolidating their strength," says Mitch Ratcliffe, president of Internet/Media Strategies Inc., a Lakewood, Wash. ...'' From Business Weekhttp://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/07/the_search_for.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting:''Via Mitch Ratcliffe, who explains that he’s working with a group to come up with tools that analyze the trajectory and speed of how ideas become influential online. “The first example of our technology, at www.mydensity.com, which tracks the social network two degrees around any URL, doesn’t get to any of the influence tracking by topic/theme, but it is available in an enterprise service.'' From Milwaukee Journal Sentinelhttp://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/MWSB/lib00252,0EB82DBB1C829B0A.html:''Mitch Ratcliffe, vice president of programming for ON24.com, said the trip had sparked a couple of ideas he'll pursue but that it didn't produce anything he ...'' From Los Angeles Timeshttp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/6360533.html?dids=6360533:6360533&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+17%2C+1994&author=Citron%2C+Alan&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=CAA+gets+in+fast+lane+by+hiring+AT%26T+media+exec&pqatl=google:''"It's really a very smart move," said Mitch Ratcliffe, editor of the San Francisco-based newsletter Digital Media. "With Kavner, CAA is an instantly ...'' From Seattle Post Intelligencerhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/276108_gnomedex01.html:''For example, blogger Mitch Ratcliffe urged Edwards to give a blogger a seat on his campaign bus, with complete access and without restrictions, should he decide to run for the 2008 Democratic nomination.'' From San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/12/16/BU47029.DTL&type=printable:''``People are watching investment conferences on the Web that they couldn't get into in person," said Mitch Ratcliffe, vice president of programming. ``The ability to see (corporate executives) so they can judge whether they believe them is very important."'' And dozens more like these. Individually none of these amounts to much but collectively they do. There is also a more in-depth biographical page about him at Microsoft Research, where he seems to have been a keynote speaker at a conference:http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2005/speakers/Ratcliffe.aspx. I would say that taken together there is enough here to pass 
Stance: keep
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