Deletion of Ray Thackeray

Comment: Subject fails to meet  requirements
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: Most of those recent "dramatic" improvements are courtesy of yours truly, and the article has ''shrunk'', not grown, in the process.  As I point out above, I'm leaning more toward strengthening my delete vote, if anything, as a result of working to improve the article.  Improvement ''as an article'' is somewhat orthogonal to notability, and notability is what needs to improve here, to clear . I'm improving the article only as a way to bring degree of notability into focus, as did
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: The more I look, the more I suspect notability manufacturing by the article's originator.  See the comment on my edit here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quality_function_deployment&action=history, where the editor claimed Thackeray was "seminal" in introducing QFD to softwarehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quality_function_deployment&diff=prev&oldid=92822600, on the basis of an uncited paper at an obscure conference that is apparently organized by a company (GOAL/QPC) largely on its own behalf (see, e.g., http://www.goalqpc.com/toyota.cfm).  See also the erstwhile claim of "lead inventor" on a (now withdrawn) patent with 20 "inventors", none of whom seemed able to meet the classic requirement that an invention be non-obvious.http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=US2001046356  He's also clearly not meeting , with a resume consisting only of credits for bit parts in civic light opera.  We've verified that Ray Thackeray is an unusually accomplished person both in his career and in his hobbies.  But we're still pretty far from , I think
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ENTERTAINER||WP:N)

Comment: Further work doesn't seem to be helping.  As a sailor, fails .  As an executive, quoted here and there but in press releases; only one RS http://news.cnet.com/MP3.com-pulls-out-of-planned-SeeUthere.com-buy/2100-1023_3-236983.html, but it doesn't mention him, failing .  Initial article creation is clearly with a .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/RayJohnson  If seeUthere could be established as a notable company, maybe he has a chance, but if there hasn't been an article for it in all this time, I'm doubtful there will ever be one.  (Surprise me!)  As an engineer, he wrote a paper that got cited a bit.http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=5059608106702652805&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5  The article described his work as "seminal"; and a section of a book on quality engineering http://books.google.com/books?ei=moRBTe6iBYTuvQOV-KyPAg&ct=result&id=cuiI010mfisC&dq=%22Ray+Thackeray%22+quality+engineering&q=thackeray#search_anchor was apparently adapted from an article he co-wrote, and the book got some good Amazon reviews http://www.amazon.com/Management-Control-Quality-James-Evans/dp/0314008640/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296139553&sr=1-1 ... but OK, I'm stretching a little.  I don't see .    He was mentioned in one dead-linked source as having a patent, but I don't see  for engineer.  A couple hours of work should have turned up more than this
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NSPORT||WP:N||WP:SPA||WP:ACADEMIC||WP:CREATIVE)