Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mamadsho Ilolov

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The result was keep. John254 01:51, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mamadsho Ilolov

Mamadsho Ilolov (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Looks like just an average professor. Presumably a living person, yet the article is unreferenced. Don't see any way it meets the notability criteria. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 01:39, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

• Strong keep clearly not just an average professor. President of a national science academy (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan), former member of parliament, and former cabinet minister as already noted in the source given at the bottom of the article. Numerous Russian and Tajik sources (BBC Persian, Office of the President of Tajikistan, etc.) confirm these claims [1], as do some English sources like the [2][3]. cab (talk) 02:13, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tajikistan-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 02:13, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 02:13, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Regardless of actual scientific merit, being the President of Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan is appropriate status for an article. (I'm not sure i would say so for membership in the Academy). And The World Information Distributed University actually might just be real, and is certainly curious enough to need an article. As for scientific merit, I can find only two papers in Web of Science, cited almost never, published in Doklady ANSSR, both presumably with his advisor at Kiev, but coverage of Russian work in WoS is very sparse--although of course the notable russian mathematicians are very highly cited worldwide. so even though not a notable scientist, still notable. DGG (talk) 04:51, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep - for being the President of the Academy of Sciences in Tajikistan. matt91486 (talk) 04:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. The nominator thinks a President of a National Academy of Sciences, a former Cabinet Minister, MP, is non-notable? I suggest their many road articles are significantly less notable than this person. Mostlyharmless (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
  • I am not aware of the importance of this organization, and the article as I found it did not place much emphasis on this. Also, the reference to being a member of parliament was buried in a list of other achievements that I overlooked. Furthermore, I'd prefer that you comment on this article alone and not on my contribution history; the latter is irrelevant to this debate. Thank you. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 19:46, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep as a minister, but needs better sources. Punkmorten (talk) 12:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep notable post-Soviet scientific official. I added a cite from Asia Pulse. He was also part of the Tajik president's delegation to India in 2006, per BBC radio monitoring.--12:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wageless (talk • contribs)
• Keep one should hope that being the President of the Academy of Sciences in Tajikista is notable enough. RFerreira (talk) 18:46, 15 February 2008 (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.