Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jörundur svavarsson

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The result was Keep. Walton^One 16:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jörundur svavarsson

Jörundur svavarsson (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Marine biology professor who doesn't seem to meet WP:PROF. Clearly nothing in the article to prove that he does, and a quick search doesn't turn up anything. I can't exactly read Icelandic though, so there might be something there. fuzzy510 21:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Fails WP:PROF, not much info in article anyway. •Malinaccier• ^T/C 22:33, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Bduke 00:27, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as of now, its just directory information and I do not see a reason to keep in the current state Corpx 04:12, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep per DGG below Corpx 04:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

• Keep we're judging the subject, not the article. Apparently neither the nom nor the commentators above bothered to even look at the web page--or at least look carefully enough to see that there is an English version as well as one in Icelandic (as is almost always the case for scientists). He's published 20 papers in the last 5 years alone, many in first rate international journals, such as American Naturalist and Journal of Natural History. He studies primarily Crustacea, and the literature tends to be very specialized, so I don;t expect much in Web of Science, but looking there I see 49 peer-reviewed papers total, with the most cited having been cited 39, 37, 33, 29, 27 times, which is in my opinion excellent for the subject. 13 papers cited 11 or more times, again very good for a subject like this. This much citation shows wide recognition as an expert by his fellow specialists, as judged by third party peer reviewed reliable sources, and thus meets WP:PROF. It isn't absolutely always true, but a full professor at a university will have generally published a good deal, and if a "quick search" doesn't find it, there's reason to go further. DGG (talk) 01:39, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

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