Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bradley Nelson


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The result was keep. Overall consensus to Keep as meets PROF (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 Talk 23:30, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Bradley Nelson
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Non-notable individual with no third-party sources; fails WP:GNG. Article creator has since been blocked as a promotional account. sixty nine  • speak up •  02:35, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete perhaps for now unless there are further convincing signs of the applicable notability. SwisterTwister   talk  05:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. He is both an IEEE Fellow and an ASME Fellow. That's two passes of WP:PROF. His Google scholar profile shows an h-index of 54 and over 30 papers with over 100 citations each, well over the threshold for WP:PROF. And though I can't find clear evidence of it, I strongly suspect that his professorship at ETHZ is a lot closer to a distinguished professorship at a US university than to a regular full professorship; if so that would be another pass. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:51, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per Eppstein, an extraordinary nomination. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:12, 3 February 2016 (UTC).
 * Comment I believe that perhaps Bradley J. Nelson (professor of Robotics at ETH Zürich) is notable enough for a living person to be included in Wikipedia; however, his citations on GoogleScholar, WOS and RG should not be confused with other Bradley J. Nelsons including Bradley J. Nelson from the Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington or Bradley J. Nelson the Orthopaedic Surgeon from University of Minnesota. Arashtitan  15:20, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's why I linked to his scholar profile (curated to be only his pubs) rather than just a search by name (which could have other researchers with similar names). —David Eppstein (talk) 16:52, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article itself says he is a fellow of several of the main technical societies in engineering, an unambiguous demonstration of notability of PROF. It would be good form for the nominator to withdraw this. Agricola44 (talk) 16:16, 3 February 2016 (UTC).
 * Keep. Passes WP:PROF as elected fellow of appropriate societies, numerous very highly cited papers (from the Google Scholar site David Eppstein links 17 with 150+ citations all on robotics), and several awards. I don't see a problem with promotional language in the article. ETA: to write that the creator was "blocked as a promotional account" is incorrect; the account was blocked as breaking the guidance on account names and multiuser accounts with no prejudice to recreating a single-user account with an appropriate name. Espresso Addict (talk) 17:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per Eppstein. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


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