Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fereydoon Family

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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 was Keep. —Quarl (talk) 2007-04-08 08:23Z

[edit] Fereydoon Family

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I don't think we should have articles about every professors in the world.→AzaToth 15:45, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak delete nothing on this page or his own website to indicate he's any more interesting than any other nanotechnologist - although they're few and far between enough that that in itself may be notable... - iridescenti (talk to me!) 15:59, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete non notable RaveenS 21:10, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, notable enough. Siba 01:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Very Strong Keep First of all, we do not have articles about all professors, only the notable ones. Full professors holding named chairs at major research universities, and Emory is one, are almost always considered notable. They generally publish a good deal. The article lists six books is way more than the average for a scientist. (The most heavily cited one has been cited 284 times!) The main publication work of a scientist is in journal papers, and he has published 161 papers; the most heavily cited of them was cited 547 times. (I have added the top 10 to the article) . This is notability by the specialized criteria of WP:PROF, by the general notability guidelines, and common sense.
He has met much stricter criteria than we can use here--the successive promotion review boards, the grant boards, and the many peer reviews for publications. His peers have decided on the notability, and we record it.
Funny: half the notable scientist bios we see here have been nominated because of sometimes outrageous self-advertising, which detracts from their real accomplishments; half are excessively modest, and get here because they don not display them. I think it careless to nominate a senior academic for deletion without at least checking Google Scholar; though not very accurate, it would have shown about 200 results, many with hundreds of citations. The appropriate action upon seeing this article would have been an "expand" tag. DGG 01:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. Named professor at important university, papers with 500+ citations, fellow of a major society, any one of which alone would be enough for a clear pass for WP:PROF. —David Eppstein 06:10, 4 April 2007 (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.