Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan P. Peterson


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 19:10, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Alan P. Peterson

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I first saw this article when I was googling Alan C. Peterson, which I thought he had a Wikipedia page, since I saw the name, Alan Peterson in it, only to see a disambiguation of the page. Among the highlighted ones is a page about an American ornithologist and taxonomist who happens to have the same name, which I clicked, only to find it a stub.
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2023 January 17.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 17:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and United States of America. Shellwood (talk) 17:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Being a stub is not a valid deletion rationale but the stub makes no case for notability so we will have to look elsewhere for that. Google Scholar search for his name (skipping off-topic articles likely by others with similar names) found six publications, two of which have single-digit citations and the rest of which have none. Searching for "zoonomen" worked better but still found a max of 22 citations, the rest single-digit. That is far below WP:PROF levels even in a very low citation field. Web searching finds him responsible for a web taxonomy resource, but otherwise an amateur. Being an amateur is not in any way a bad thing but it means none of the other avenues for PROF notability are open. That leaves GNG, but I couldn't find enough coverage for notability for his web site, let along enough for inherited notability for him. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per David Eppstein. The claim to fame is Zoonomen, and a listing of Peterson and Zoonomen in ITIS, mainly due to Zoonomen being linked in " Other Source(s): " for some entries really is not enough for notability. I don't see how NPROF or GNG are met. -- Mvqr (talk) 11:37, 18 January 2023 (UTC)


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