Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Omohundro

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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 delete; also an apparently speediable copyvio. --MCB 05:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steve Omohundro

Does not seem to meet WP:PROF or WP:BIO. No Newsbank or ScienceDirect links. CV here. The claim that he was the co-founder of the Center for Complex Systems Research might put him over the hump if verified, but he was only an Assistant Professor at the time, so I wonder what his actual role in the founding was. ~ trialsanderrors 23:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete Wikipedia is not a collection of resumes. Septentrionalis 14:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep He did appear in Unterburger, Amy L. (ed.) (1989) Who's Who in Technology (6th ed.) Gale Research, Detroit, ISBN 0810349515, according to Gale Group's Biography & Genealogy Master Index. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy available in my library. It looks as though his real notablilty may be pre-Internet. Bejnar 03:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Comment His book Geometric perturbation theory in physics published in 1986 is real and is widely held in academic libraries according to WorldCat.
I can't tell if the Who's Who book is a vanity publication (looks like it from quick check). The perturbations book might be more interesting if it's a textbook. It's not much of a research publication since it only got a handful of cites (3 or 4). ~ trialsanderrors 05:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
The perturbations book is not a text book. MathSciNet writes: "This book is the author's Ph.D. thesis … It is essentially a collection of loosely related essays …". -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 08:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per Bejnar. --Marriedtofilm 23:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
  • keep only if that can be cleaned up to look less like a resume DesertSky85451 03:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak delete There are not enough sources to write an article on him. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Primary Notability Criteria: Nontrivial coverage in multiple reliable sources. By definition, "Who's Who" books are ALWAYS trivial coverage, and thus unsuitable for a "keep" defense. Also, a single book publication fails the "multiple" requirement for notability. Unless we can solve these problems, he looks non-notable. --Jayron32 06:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. He looks like just one of many accomplished individuals that exist in the world, but don't have Wikipedia bios. I don't find the Who's Who or his published thesis convincing as far as establishing the kind of notability I believe we've come to expect. By the way, the whole article is just a major copyvio, which makes this a speedy delete. --C S (Talk) 11:04, 29 October 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.