Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlos Becker Westphall


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The result was   delete. TravellingCari 21:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Carlos Becker Westphall

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Created by. No independent reliable source proves notability (academics). Deleted on pt-wiki: pt:Wikipedia:Páginas para eliminar/Carlos Becker Westphall. Speedy/Prod deleted several times:, , , Tosqueira (talk) 04:44, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete. I am not completely sure about this case. On one hand, the CV shows a huge publication list. It is also confirmed that he is an editorial board member for one journal and a "senior technical editor" for another journal. On the other hand I could find very little evidence of citability of his research. GoogleScholar gives very little. I also checked both WebofScience and Scopus and there is very little there in terms of citability of his papers, with top hits in low single digits. It is possible that somehow all of them miss a substantial number of sources, but unless someone can actually demonstrate this, I am unwilling to give too much weight to the two journal editorships and being on the organizing committees of various conferences. In computer science I would have expected to see substantial evidence of citability of his work detected somewhere. Nsk92 (talk) 11:46, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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 * Delete Not editor of the journals, member of the editorial board of one, and "technical editor" of another. the long list of publications are almost entirely local conferences. Neither scopus nor WoS are particularly strong for computer technology, so I also checked Citeseer, and a vareity of similar approaches to computer conferences, and found nothing significant further. DGG (talk) 03:06, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not seem to have made much impact. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:57, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Nsk91 and DGG. --Crusio (talk) 10:17, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


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