Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claude E. Gagna


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 16:18, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Claude E. Gagna

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Not notable, like most associate professors.. The highest citations any of his articles has received is 21, and h= 8. Though I do not judge exclusively or even primarily by h values, numbers like this are so low as to make the lack of notability under WP:PROF very clear, considering that he works in a field where citations are normally quite high. Many people have studied Z-DNA, an extremely important topic; he is not prominent in the field, let alone an authority. The list of awards is nonsense: most of them are student or in-college awards, which do not count toward notability. The only one even worth considering is "NJ inventors Hall of Fame", and I am not convinced that it really has any significance either. "He will be receiving patents in the future" is a clear indication of"not yet notable"

I have consistently for many years tried to increase our deplorably inadequate coverage of notable academic researchers, but not all academic researchers are notable. We need to concentrate on the ones who are. I should note that I tend now to be rather skeptical about academics where the awards or accomplishments are listed in a table: this is not our style, and it indicates that the article was written by someone not familiar with WP, usually someone associated with the subject, or a PR agent for their organization.  DGG ( talk ) 08:10, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. When DGG nominates an article for deletion, there is no mistake. Also, article makes no coherent claim of notability for this one of millions of professors in the world. Abductive  (reasoning) 23:31, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 03:01, 23 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Nothing to show he's a notable academic, lacks significant independent coverage, and his list of awards is unimpressive. 131.118.229.17 (talk) 23:55, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:ACADEMIC. Nominator's research is persuasive. --MelanieN (talk) 20:45, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
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