Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ray Thackeray
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  See also the erstwhile claim of "lead inventor" on a (now withdrawn) patent with 20 "inventors", none of whom seemed able to meet the classic requirement that an invention be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
— User:Yakushima, 05:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:ENTERTAINER||WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)