Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Kruskal


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The result was   delete. Yamamoto Ichiro (talk) 02:15, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Benjamin Kruskal

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Doesn't seem to satisfy WP:BIO... no significant ghits (mainly directory listings, this article, etc.). Reads more like an autobiography, possibly created by the subject. umrguy 42  16:40, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 16:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. This bio doesn't satisfy Notability (academics). Kruskal hasn't made any impact in his field. He is a Fellow of American Academy of Pediatrics, but that is not enough to justify a Wikipedia article. AdjustShift (talk) 17:43, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per AdjustShift. Could almost be speedied under A7, since there is not even any assertion of notability (as far as physicians go, his biography is pretty typical).  Sheep NotGoats   (Talk) 17:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete unsourced and unreferenced --Dreamspy (talk) 19:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Very weak delete Why guess, when databases are available: 14 papers in Scopus (or PubMed), all of them first rate journals,  citations of the top ones 87, 72, 37. Given that the highest cited ones are experimental medicine, where multiple publications and high citation counts are usual, this is not quite notability as a researcher. As a physician, he's head of Infection control & Travel medicine at a very important university medical group. Head of a major service there like pediatrics   would in my opinion have been notable, but this not necessarily.  DGG (talk) 00:09, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Thanks for the lit search. In addition to the non-notable citation counts that you pointed out, a total of 14 published papers (even if they're in high impact journals) is quite low for an academic.  Sheep NotGoats   (Talk) 19:21, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * weak delete per DGG. (top citations by my count are 93 & 85, but not that many of them, ISI h-index = 10), and no explicit claim to notability... Pete.Hurd (talk) 21:32, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


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