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Cool, so have you gone through and deleted all the articles about individual software engineers? Because I know of numerous.

What is your definition of "notable"? I assume if you can produce stats you have objective criteria?

Have you deleted "local hero" articles?

What is the criteria for relevance? I recall there being numerous studies in the past demonstrating articles about important events and people in non-western environments being deleted.

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The notability criteria are site-wide, not personal and depend somewhat on the source of notability of a given subject (e.g. different criteria for academics than for most other living persons). Check out [1] if you are genuinely interested.

Actually, I think there is a significant bias against things that lack sources in English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

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