Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Douglass (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 02:48, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

David Douglass
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Does not appear to meet WP:PROF, since his GS h-index is only 14 (which seems a bit low, though I may be wrong) and virtually none of his research has been reported on by reliable sources. There is one exception to the latter statement, however, which is one study published in 2008, which got a lot of media coverage (at least compared to his other research) and was later debunked by Santer et al (as noted in the article). However this doesn't establish notability beyond BLP1E, since even the coverage of that study is rather scant. Jinkinson  talk to me  19:19, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep per WP:PROF. The number of new fellows per year in the APS is limited to 1/2 of 1% of their total membership, making this the sort of highly selective honor that #C3 describes. I'm less convinced by the NYAS fellowship but we only need one. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:58, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Passes consensus mark of WP:Prof with an h-index of 22 in the average-cited fields of condensed matter physics. Also some impact in the climate change area. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:44, 29 March 2014 (UTC).
 * Comment How are you calculating the h-index such that I get 14 and you get 22? I, for one, am using Google Scholar and typing in "author:Douglass, David H.". I also have the Scholar H-Index Calculator installed. Jinkinson   talk to me  22:00, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
 * By searching for "D H Douglas", the name under which he publishes. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:10, 29 March 2014 (UTC).
 * Was that a typo, or did Douglass spell his last name with only one s on every study he ever published? Jinkinson   talk to me  21:50, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It was a typo. Sorry, it should be "D H Douglass" Xxanthippe (talk) 21:59, 30 March 2014 (UTC).


 * Keep as having three papers with >100 citations each. As a matter of WP:BALANCE, however, the climate change coverage (for which he is not notable) should be kept to less running text than his other academic work. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:34, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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