Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alvar Palmgren


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The result was Keep, non-admin closure. Avruch Talk 03:42, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn Avruch Talk 03:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Alvar Palmgren

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Non-notable individual, seemingly. I'd welcome the opinion of anyone from a botany project on whether the short list of academic work on this page merits notability in that field. Avruch Talk 00:31, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep From this Google search it looks like he had something to say, but I don't speak Finnish, so I couldn't tell you what. Hopefully there are some Finns that can chime in here. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 00:40, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep at least provisionally. Article is sourced and nom doesn't seem sure that he might not be notable. Capitalistroadster (talk) 00:48, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong, emphatic keep This botanist has a botanical author abbreviation, Palmgr., which means that he described or redescribed species, genera, families, etc. That makes him notable. Rkitko (talk) 02:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions.  -- Lquilter (talk) 02:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - Plainly notable per WP:PROF based on contributions to botany; any Ghits for someone from first half of 20th century is strong indicator of notability; also appears to be notable in early 20th century peace movement. --Lquilter (talk) 02:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as an important researcher in several key evolution and ecology topics of the 20th century. As the article notes, he worked on microspecies (still an important topic), island biogeography (and was one of the few working on subarctic islands instead of tropical), as well as the fact that has has a botanical author abbreviation, meaning that he is responsible for the description or renaming of plant taxa. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:57, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


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