Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Moses

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. Kusma (討論) 02:14, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joel Moses

Not notable enough --Light current 02:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, doesn't meet WP:BIO criteria. Royboycrashfan 02:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
  • As I said below, the WP:BIO criteria are guidelines. They are not necessary for notability.
    • An to further, notability isn't even a guideline. T K E 07:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

--Saforrest 02:59, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - nnbio, per RoyBoy. --lightdarkness ^(talk) 02:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep - "Institute Professor", presumably the equivalent of "University Professor" at other instutitions, is a prestigious title and one which I doubt is given out lightly. Macsyma, as essentially the first computer algebra system and a precursor to modern CASes like Mathematica, Maple, and Magma was a very significant addition to the world of mathematics and computer science. His administrative roles (e.g. provost of the university) are also pretty high-level. --Saforrest 02:58, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I would also say that the "institute professor" title qualifies him for criterion #8 of Wikipedia:Notability (academics). --Saforrest 03:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Revising my vote. The contributions Moses has given to mathematics, directly to the development of the previously mentioned algorythm, do seem to be significant contributions that would meet Notability (Academics), even if it's only proposed. --lightdarkness ^(talk) 04:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, seems notable. --Terence Ong 04:57, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable academic. Metamagician3000 09:45, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Saforrest. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, being one of fifteen MIT professors to hold a particular distinction is a sign of notability per se. Monicasdude 17:00, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but rewrite. TydeNet 05:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but rewrite per TydeNet ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 06:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Full professor at MIT. JeffBurdges 13:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.