Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Selam Ahderom (second nomination)

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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selam Ahderom (second nomination)

Previously deleted but content recreated. Earlier AfD is here. Same argument as before, viz nn academic, possible vanity page. Eusebeus 05:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. African academics are underrepresented in Wikipedia. I think that, as an academic in Uganda, he is notable. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 11:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment- Every Ugandan academic is notable? I think not. J Milburn 13:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as per TruthbringerToronto. -- Jeff3000 13:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep Gets a reasonable number of Google Scholar hits http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=author%3ASelam T. Ahderom&btnG=Search Wouldn't meet WP:PROF in US/EU, but a keep would help towards reduction of systemic bias. Dlyons493 Talk 14:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete (sadly). I created this article as part of a series on Bahai Counsellors. Sadly the precedent has been set that CBCs are not notable enough for their retention - even the list has been deleted from the main page on CBCs. That's Baha'is for you! AndrewRT - Talk 18:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Precedent schmecedent, Baha'is can be notable too. -- Visviva 19:28, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. He is not a notable academic, merely a lecturer at a university. If there is anything to make him notable, it is for being a Bahá'í Counselor, which does not equate notability unless the Counselor is also notable in his own right. We do not need to keep articles about people who do not meet WP:PROF as a means to reduce systemic bias. Uganda has quite a few noteworthy academics with published works. --Ezeu 22:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Changing to Keep given the addition of published papers. --Ezeu 06:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per Ezeu. Happening to live in another country doesn't make a non-notable academic any more notable per WP:PROF (which is technically misnomer, since this individual is not even a professor, but a lecturer). To say so is not systemic bias. --Kinu ^t/_c 05:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. As often happens with articles nominated for AfD, the article has been improved. I added three of his publications, and more can be found at http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Selam+Ahderom I also added a link to Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical and computer engineering honor society. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 06:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I am familiar with Ahderom's research and publications on computer generated holographic optical router. It is original and significant, and its methods novel and certainly qualifies notable per WP:PROF -- Optiv 14:52, 18 August 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.