Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Wardle (academic)


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) fuzzy510 (talk) 22:26, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Brian Wardle (academic)

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Non-notable academic. Best as I could tell (as I struggled to find much while doing a WP:BEFORE search), fails WP:NPROF. fuzzy510 (talk) 21:24, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator -fuzzy510 (talk) 22:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Massachusetts.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:02, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Question: is this the same individual as . The citation record looks plausible for NPROF, but I think that the subject works in an especially high citation field.  This might be a good place for the comparison method of .  Assuming it is the same person, he seems to have been promoted to full professor, at least. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 12:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the head's up, I'll take a look. JoelleJay (talk) 16:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Full professor at MIT, citation record with h-index of 54, easily passes NPROF-C1. Also covered in popular media, such as Wired. -- Mvqr (talk) 12:55, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. As well as passing WP:PROF, there has been significant media coverage of some of his work; for instance, beyond the 2011 Wired story above about using nanotubes to detect airplane damage, there was a splash in 2019 about a blacker-than-black pigment . Our article needed some updating; as of the nomination, it said he was an assistant prof, but he is full prof now. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:11, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Very clear-cut case based on WP:NPROF#1 with a strong citation record and 25 papers with 100+ citations. --hroest 21:12, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment - In light of the fact that I am clearly out of my depth here with academics, and this is nowhere near the clear-cut deletion case I thought it would be, I'm going to withdraw my nomination. I think there's still some work that can be done with citations for the article, but this is not the place to address that. -fuzzy510 (talk) 22:24, 3 April 2023 (UTC)


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