Deletion of Bruce Eckel

Comment: Reference books tend to get much higher citation counts than research papers, so I don't see the high cite count for "Thinking in Java" as being particularly conclusive re , and he doesn't have enough other high-citation publications to convince me of a pass of criterion 1. The more relevant standard for this sort of work would be the existence of multiple published reviews of the book — there's some of that (for instance a piece in The Register on the 4th ed.), but it still looks like a case of  to me
Stance: delete
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Comment: Per above. Significant contribution to the field.  applies
Stance: keep
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