Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Bacon

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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. John254 02:27, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Bacon

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Not notable enough for an encyclopedia. I could find a hundred professors in my city that have won random awards in their field, doesn't mean they should take up space on an encyclopedia. Also lacks references verifying information. Gthippo 23:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. —Espresso Addict 23:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Professor status at that date (1963) in the UK was rather rare, and he was also Dean of the Faculty of Pure Science at Sheffield according to [1] (which supports several of the article's claims). Won national Guthrie Medal and Prize and published standard textbook. Seems very clearly to meet my notion of WP:PROF. Espresso Addict 23:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep If you want references, search for "george bacon" "neutron diffraction". The links from that seem to show he was a key figure in that field and wrote the standard text on it. And if you think "neutron diffraction" is a non-notable field to be a pioneer in, note that the developers of the technique were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics. If the two links I've provided are accurate, there should be no problem meeting all 6 criteria in WP:PROF. Thomjakobsen 23:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Originally prodded by an anon. This AfD by an editor who has made two edits: one nominating this, and the other giving hime/herself a dozen barnstars. Speedy keep as bad faith nom. DGG (talk) 00:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep More than enough assertion of notability (and it's more than a dozen barnstars: 1,244,879 bytes of unrendered wikicode). Yngvarr (t) (c) 00:21, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep as per above. --Crusio 08:42, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Definite keep. Without question. • Lawrence Cohen 19:38, 17 September 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.