Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elena R. Iarskaia-Smirnova


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The result was delete. czar 21:45, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Elena R. Iarskaia-Smirnova

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Doesn't meet any of the criteria of WP:ACADEMIC. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Policy Studies, but I can't find any information about that journal to indicate that it is a "major, well-established academic journal" (as WP:ACADEMIC's 8th criterion requires). Can't find anything about "Sociology of public sphere" either. Iago Qnsi (talk) 00:53, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  /wiae   /tlk  02:06, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
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Provisional Delete. No evidence here that she is even on the editorial board. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:36, 8 March 2016 (UTC).[]
 * Comment. She is stated as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Policy Studies, which is associated with National Research University – Higher School of Economics -- which our article describes as "one of the leading and largest universities in Russia" -- where she is also a professor. On the other hand, Google Scholar isn't showing many citations for her research (highest 33), though that might be a feature of her writing predominantly in Russian. Espresso Addict (talk) 10:51, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I can't find her name on the list. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:26, 17 March 2016 (UTC).

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   20:18, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article is clearly a CV. GS indicates a grand citation total that barely makes double-digits. Agricola44 (talk) 16:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC).
 * Delete. The journal seems too obscure to make a convincing case for notability by itself and I don't see anything else. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:33, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment. I believe that there is room in Wikipedia for an entry on Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova. Together with her late husband, Pavel Romanov, with whom she published extensively, she is an authoritative figure in the present-day Russian sociological landscape. She has made significant contributions to fields like disability and gender studies in Russia - at a time when these topics were not particularly fashionable there, and in a political climate that has not always been favorable to the work of sociologists (to put it mildly). A further reason for keeping this article is that Russian sociology and sociologists are not well known outside Russia, which is unfortunate. I believe that Wikipedia can help to make more easily available knowledge about this topic, thus contributing to the internationalisation of Russian sociology (and to the enrichment of the global sociological community). Disclaimer: As an assistant professor of sociology at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), I am a colleague of Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova. I am therefore familiar with her work and can attest to its notability, though of course I also have a positive bias in this regard. This entry was originally a group project in one of my undergraduate courses ("Sociological Reasoning: the philosophy, history, sociology and practice of social research"). The idea of the project was to help students reflect upon the sociological field in Russia, while also offering the chance to contribute to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Floresrd (talk • contribs) — Floresrd (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Delete as none of this seems to satisfy any applicable notability, her school position is not anything imaginably acceptable for notability. If she was a University School Chair, that would be different. Questionable for now at best, SwisterTwister   talk  23:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)


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