Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Opdyke
The Google Scholar link provided by Eastmain shows a very high level of citation for several books/papers by this author, and his work appears to have been key to the development of the subject of code refactoring, per our article. Passes my understanding of 
— User:Espresso, 23:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)