I agree with nearly all of that except the last paragraph: >My initial feeling was that Ulrich Drepper deserves a Wikipedia page, but the evidence is that the

I agree with nearly all of that except the last paragraph: >My initial feeling was that Ulrich Drepper deserves a Wikipedia page, but the evidence is that the deletionist might be right. Should niceness/sociablity/etc be a criteria for notability and hence "deserving" a Wikipedia page? I'd argue that it should not. Linus Torvalds, Stephen Wolfram, Steve Jobs - none of them seem particularly nice - but all have achieved great things - and hence they are notable. The difference from the case of Ulrich Drepper, is that those achievements are documented in a form that Wikipedia will accept as evidence for notability.