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As a professor, he seems to fail WP:PROF. If he teaches "Borland C++ Builder and Java", he's teaching vocational skills rather than research computer science, and so isn't likely to have made significant contributions in the field, and indeed a search on Google scholar turns up nothing of note. As the article suggests, his importance to Novell's development is also questionable. According to this history, he was never a full-time employee, and Google web, book, and news searches reveal no substantial coverage of his role there (or of him in any other respect, for that matter). Jfire (talk) 23:08, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- Keep I dont think he's necessarily notable as a professor--seems a second career. His notability is as a founder of the precursor company to Novell. This was pre-google, of course--most of the information in Google is derived from Misplaced Pages, but I found among them two reasonably good internet sources. as their reliability depends on the reputation of the authors, and I don;t know about this myself, I rely on the people who do to help out with this one. DGG (talk) 00:43, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Comment - The sources are and . Reading the former, one is inclined to believe that Fairclough played a rather minor role at Novell's precursor, Novell Data Systems, working there part time as a hardware engineer as he finished his PhD. On the other hand, the second source, a blog post, presents him as the "real founder" of Novell -- though note that in the comments to the blog post, the author admits that he hadn't read the first source, and that after reading it he realized that "There were many details I didn't know. My myopic view included one small part of the proverbial elephant." Jfire (talk) 02:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:47, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Keep As a founder of Novell, he is at least semi-notable.