Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deepal Mathew


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:04, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Deepal Mathew

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Fails WP:ANYBIO and WP:NSCHOLAR. The key reference is used in the article is a biography on the University's website, which has been prepared by Prof. Mathew himself - WP:PRIMARYSOURCE. The article previously stated that he was a Dean at the University of Colombo however a search of the University website clearly indicates that isn't the case (this has been subsequently deleted by myself from the article). Whilst he is a fellow of the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, this is hardly highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (as indicated under criteria 3 of WP:NACADEMIC). His citations counts under Google Scholar are relatively low and many of his papers are co-authored however I acknowledge that WP:Notability_(academics), warns against putting all your trust in Google Scholar. I've undertaken a web search and found no reliable independent sources that establish any degree of notability. Dan arndt (talk) 05:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 05:40, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 05:40, 1 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete nothing rises to the level of passing the notability guidelines for academics.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:24, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:39, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


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