Whatever happened to those sweet kids, you ask? Well, Landon Noll grew a beard, and Laura A. Noll got married and became Ariel Glenn. Yes, there probably is a good reason for using her middle name, but it's not really germaine to this post.
I happened to notice that [[Ariel Glenn]] was a red link. It was deleted by Daniel with the edit summary "‎(Biographies of living persons concerns. Please contact me via email if you have any questions.)". Of course this piqued my interest. Googling Ariel Glenn I found the cache of the article and there appears to be nothing terribly provocative in it:
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Ariel T. Glenn (née Laura A. Nickel) with Landon Curt Noll discovered on October 30, 1978 that 221701 − 1 was the 25th Mersenne prime. This made international news because Noll and Nickel were still high school students. For the verification of this number alone, the pair used almost eight hours of time on a CDC Cyber 174 at California State University [1]. They consumed over 4000 hours of computer time in their search double testing M21001 through M24481, along with a test of M65537 using a custom implementation of the Lucas-Lehmer test.
Ariel worked as a public key infrastructure specialist at Columbia University, and is now a member of the Midnight Special Law Collective, a radical law collective.
I was confused until I noticed this in the Google results. Today's lesson: if you want your BLP deleted but don't fancy having sex with Jimbo, start working for the Wikimedia Foundation.