Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aidong Zhang


 * 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 keep. I'm going to close this early per WP:SNOW. Missvain (talk) 17:31, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Aidong Zhang

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An editor who I believe to be the subject has requested deletion, per WP:BLPREQDEL, after being prevented from editing the article herself and after claiming it to be inaccurate but failing to identify any specific inaccuracies. I personally strongly oppose deletion, as I think this is not a borderline case: the subject has three or so distinguished/named professor titles (WP:PROF), two major society fellowships (ACM and IEEE, WP:PROF), heavily cited publications (WP:PROF), and is the founding editor-in-chief of a significant journal (WP:PROF) and founding head of a major branch of the ACM (WP:PROF). In addition, this deletion would create a significant gap in our coverage of women in STEM, as the only female ACM Fellow not to have an article. For these reasons, I think we should keep the article despite the subject's wishes. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:31, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:35, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:35, 18 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, so not WP:LOWPROFILE. However, as a biography of a living person (WP:BLP), we should be scrupulous about using high quality sources. pburka (talk) 20:43, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. The ACM and IEEE fellowships are a big deal.  Combined with the strong claim to WP:NPROF C1 and C5, and possible claims to WP:NPROF C6 and C8, I don't think there's anything marginal about notability here. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 21:12, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep She's a named fellow at her university, and a fellow of the ACM and IEEE. --- Possibly (talk) 21:17, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Named fellow, ACM, IEEE fellowships, it's clear the subject is highly notable. The BLP requests may be legitimate, but if the supposed inaccuracies can't be identified, it's not clear how wholesale deletion would help. Could the nominator please communicate with the article's subject about what parts precisely of the article are presently objectionable? BrxBrx(talk)(please reply with BrxBrx ) 22:16, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I have tried, to no avail. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:17, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * have you tried to contact her via email? --hroest 00:22, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * It is not an issue of the communication not getting to her. It is that her responses have been non-responsive. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Just to confirm,, were you able to confirm that user:Aidongzhang is actually Aidong Zhang as opposed to someone impersonating her? Best, BrxBrx(talk)(please reply with BrxBrx ) 06:46, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, no, I didn't specifically confirm that, but I see no reason to doubt. They're not acting like an impersonator. I do have an email for Zhang in my contacts but it's old and stale (the one at nsf.gov) so I would need to go by public information to email her. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:46, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. She passes WP:NPROF with 15k citations and h-index of 50, and there are multiple methods to remove inaccuracies other than deleting the article. This is not a case of WP:LOWPROFILE as a professor at a major university, publishing hundreds of articles using their real name and accepting major fellowships / awards -- it is unreasonable to argue that the subject is keeping a low profile. --hroest 00:22, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. ACM founding chair of of SIG, and IEEE fellowship, are enough to establish notability. &emsp;—&#8239;sbb&#8239;(talk) 00:28, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:NPROF with 15k citations and h-index of 50 as per above, seems quite impressive. GooeyMitch (talk) 10:03, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep 22 papers with more than 100 citations, well past the bar.   scope_creep Talk  13:20, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep clearly notable: fellowships, named professorship, open and closed. According to the NPROF guideline, the h-index "should be approached with caution" so my assessment is based on the other factors. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:03, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I am copying a comment by User:Aidongzhang that has been left other places  but not here: "I read all the correspondence and appreciate your effort on setting a page for me. But I prefer not to have such a page since people are randomly adding stuff which may be personal or incorrect or very old stuff not reflecting me. As this is out of my control, I prefer not to have such a page if possible. I tried to make changes to correct your mistakes but every time my edit was reverted. For example, I am not the founding editor-in-chief for TCBB. I am the current editor-in-chief. Such wrong information does not promote me instead it sent wrong information to people and they might think I made such claims. So if possible, I still think it is the best to delete my page. Aidong Zhang" I note that, following this comment, the wrong information about an editorship was corrected by .  (The only personal information in question seems to be the birth year, which Russ also removed.) --JBL (talk) 16:08, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Clear pass of WP:NPROF, clearly not WP:LOWPROFILE. If there are specific errors on the article, they can be raised on the article's talk page. -Kj cheetham (talk) 12:52, 22 May 2021 (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.