(slightly) OT:<p>The article is well known and the author Ulrich Drepper is also well known in the FOSS world for his work on the GNU C Library. [1]<p>So I was surprised to find that he did not have a small English language Wikipedia page, even though there were pages in German, French, Norwegian, Japanese and Persian.<p>Oh, "that can't be right - I'll create one!", I thought. (By translating one of the existing pages.)<p>But I could not! The page "is protected from creation" [2].<p>An archived deletion discussion from 2014 states "This article fails Wikipedia:Notability (people), Wikipedia:Verifiability, and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons and should be deleted." ... etc.<p>Edit: s/Dropper/Drepper/<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Drepper" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Drepper</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ulrich_Drepper" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...</a>