Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ayla Kalkandelen


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) HINDWIKI •  CHAT  19:38, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Ayla Kalkandelen

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A little-known academic with just 85 (!) hits on Google (which normally indexes academic databases!). Briefly was an editor-in-chief of an obscure Turkish journal. Otherwise fails WP:NACADEMIC in every aspect. No incoming wikilinks from mainspace (other than a disambig page). BTW, having species named after oneself is fairly common and not synonymous with the person's notability. — kashmiri  TALK  20:37, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * The article says she "described ten taxa, and five taxa are named after her." If that's accurate it would seem to make her notable. Not least because people might want to know what those species are named after. Also editor in chief of a periodical. If she had workwd in the U.S. and not Turkey we would probably find more on her. But limited access to Turkish documents and records shouldn't preclude us from including her. FloridaArmy (talk) 02:10, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. I removed a Who's Who scam listing from the article. It did not contribute to notability. On the other hand the Turkish Plant Protection Bulletin has been published since 1959 so it may well be significant enough for WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 10:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep: taxa named after her confer notability - and anyone looking into those taxa is likely to want to find out about her, classic use for an encyclopedia. Pam  D  11:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. It's not at all surprising that an entomologist who wrote in Turkish and retired in 1997 doesn't have a high profile on Google or other internet sources. Assessing whether she meets WP:PROF is going to be difficult without access to offline sources in Turkish, but I agree that the multiple taxa named after he is suggestive of a significant impact on research (#C1). The obituary in a scholarly journal also goes a long way to establishing notability under the WP:GNG. So I'd say she's marginally notable based on what's in the article, and there's a high probability that there are more sources out there. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 13:43, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep I think the comments above regarding NPROF #8 and the taxa are right, but more refs would be helpful, particularly given the non-English-speaking nationality component. South Nashua (talk) 21:09, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - taxa are named after her, therefore she is notable. --122.108.141.214 (talk) 06:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


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