Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michel Darboux

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 03:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michel Darboux

This is an entry on an academic with no indication that he is particularly eminent in his field, thus failing the guideline for biographies. A cursory Google search gives no indication of prizes won or wide recognition in the field; many hits are in fact for Wikipedia mirrors.

The article states that Michel has a few papers and patents under his belts, but academics publish papers and submit patents, that (and administration) being the work of an academic and all that.

The article talk page says that the article was created after a request on Wikipedia:Requested articles/mathematics. There is a Gaston Darboux on the Mathematics Genealogy Project, though, and it may be possible that the requester just mixed up the name. Pilatus 02:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I tried to fix this article to keep it from being PROD'd but this gentleman is not sufficiently notable to evade AfD Ruby 03:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Avi 03:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Doesn't seem to pass WP:BIO or the unsanctioned but seemingly applicable professor test. --Kinu 06:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Please note that the page you cite is neither policy nor guideline and was written by a single user less than two weeks ago. Monicasdude 22:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, below the threshhold of notability.--Isotope23 18:22, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO. Stifle 11:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep weak notability. --Siva1979^{Talk to me}15:19, 10 February 2006 (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.