Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dayananda Palahela


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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 22:02, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Dayananda Palahela

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A non-notable professor- has been tagged for notability since May 2015, with no improvements. The references provide simply establish he exists. Fails WP:NACADEMICS and WP:GNG. Dan arndt (talk) 15:15, 13 September 2015 (UTC) Dan arndt (talk) 15:15, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete as although I found a few results that appear to be him, I found nothing convincingly good. Pinging and .  SwisterTwister   talk  06:52, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment The very meager Google Scholar results, and the insignificance of the publications he does list, imply non-notable. But I leave this one to David E., because it needs to be checked in the specialized indexes.  DGG ( talk ) 17:39, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. His publications can be found on Google scholar or MathSciNet under the name "P. W. A. Dayananda". They have Google scholar citation counts 55, 32, 29, etc., for an h-index of 8. This is a low-citation field but that's not enough to convince me of notability via WP:PROF. I was able to verify that he worked for (and has retired from) St. Thomas, and found suggestive evidence although not reliable sourcing for his being educated in England and at one time living in Australia. None of this amounts to notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:45, 16 September 2015 (UTC)


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