Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Levi Martin

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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. Davewild (talk) 20:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Levi Martin

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Seems like a non-notable professor. No awards, no strong assertions of notability in the article and his CV lists just two recent publications. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:06, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep: Lot of hits in Google Scholar and Google Books. The article needs some sources though -- ¿Amar៛Talk to me/My edits 08:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. —David Eppstein 16:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Not only many hits on google scolar, the papers are often cited aswell. Martijn Hoekstra 16:36, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete According to his CV ([1]) the number of publications is not extraordinary. The citation rates in GS (and even more so in Web of Science) are modest. He may well become notable in a couple of years, but for the moment he isn't. Note that all academics publish and some citations to their works are completely normal. According to WP:PROF a person has to be above the average professor to be notable and Martin is not there yet. --Crusio 16:43, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The confusing article listed him as an Associate professor--he has since become full professor at Berkeley. This is well above the average for any professor of anything. 26 peer reviewed journal articles may not be a lot in some fields of clinical medicine, but it is significant in sociology--counts can not be compared across subject fields. (& WoS counts include only counts from articles, not from books) DGG (talk) 04:53, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
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