Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Pixton


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 02:15, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Aaron Pixton

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As far as I can tell, does not pass WP:ACADEMIC. A discussion on the talk page from six years ago says that the Morgan Prize qualifies for criterion #2 of WP:ACADEMIC, but the Morgan Prize is a prize for undergraduate research, and criterion #2 of WP:ACADEMIC specifies that "awards and honors for academic student achievements" are not eligible under this category. I also do not think he is notable under the WP:CHESS notability guidelines, as the championships he have won have been junior championships, which I don't think qualify as "national- or continental championships". I don't see any sources that otherwise would qualify him under WP:GNG. CapitalSasha ~ talk 11:08, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
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<div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. Although technically a "national award," the Morgan Prize is certainly important enough to qualify for notability. Also compare Lisa Sauermann or Reid W. Barton. --bender235 (talk) 15:15, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. I think the Clay Research Fellowship and Sloan Research Fellowship are more indicative. Although they are both early-career awards, they clearly show him to be among the top ranks of mathematicians at his level of seniority. And mathematics is a low- and slow-citation field, so his citation counts on Google scholar of 91, 60, 41 (all for papers from 2015 or later) are actually quite impressive. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:11, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * PS I think the in-depth coverage of some of his mathematical work in the Morgan Prize writeup and the in-depth analysis of his game against Benjamin in Benjamin's book (both independent of the subject and reliably published) go a long way towards WP:GNG, although neither fits the more specialized notability guidelines for academics or chess. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:02, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. The guy is clearly a top-notch mathematician (IMO, Morgan, Clay, Sloan, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, etc), on an upward trajectory. I cannot quite tell whether he presently satisfies all of the Wikipedia notability criteria, but he's certainly a notable mathematician. – Turgidson (talk) 06:24, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * comment Clearly a bright guy, but I'm having trouble finding any notability standard he currently meets. His awards were for early career mathematicians, his h count is 10 and most of his papers were co-authored (with his name never being the first among them), and I question that the GNG is met. I admit I mentioned the h-count since it seems low for math, but it's another of the many areas I know only a little (or nothing) about. I'm wondering if this is WP:TOOSOON or perhaps WP:IAR. Sandals1 (talk) 19:51, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * comment on a comment: Publishing an 80 pages long paper in Inventiones (in 2018) and having a bunch of papers published in IHES, JAMS, Crelle, G&T, Compositio, etc is in and of itself notable for a research mathematician, at least in my book. As for not being listed as the first author, this is purely a matter of having a last name starting with P: in mathematics, authors are almost always (I'd say, ~99% of the time) listed in alphabetical order, as a matter of established convention. – Turgidson (talk) 04:36, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   13:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - I think this just barely passes the threshold of notability. Cosmic Sans (talk) 16:04, 14 January 2019 (UTC)


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