Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earl Killian
The patents themselves do absolutely nothing to demonstrate notability, per Wikipedia's guidelines.  At most, they indicate that an invention is probably something that has probably not been patented before. They do not judge the inventor, filer, and they certainly don't indicate notability--actually, they don't even verify that the person had anything directly to do with the invention, merely that they are the one to have filed the patent.  Many of the other sources don't meet our standards for significant coverage.  And, of course, the bios on him in various companies/advisory boards not only don't establish notability, they shouldn't even be in the article because they don't meet  as self-published sources.  The mentions of "thanks" in a number of articles definitely mean nothing in terms of notability.  A few of the sources seem to be what we usually look for (''Closing the gap between ASIC & custom'' (currently #37) and ''Understanding RISC microprocessors'' (currently #39) seem to be the best on a quick read through), but it seems to be not quite enough to establish notability.  To be honest, it would be much easier to evaluate if all of the chaff was removed, then we could see more clearly exactly how much "significant" coverage (per Wikipedia's standards) there really is.  If the article is not deleted, all of the patent links should be removed, all of the "Thanks to ..." should be removed, and all of the non-RS should be removed
— User:Qwyrxian, 00:42, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)