Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Ledin


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The result was keep. Barkeep49 (talk) 16:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

George Ledin

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Not sure that this professor meets the notability requirements for academics. Essentially one piece of coverage in Newsweek. Mccapra (talk) 08:48, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. If he passes WP:PROF, it could only be for #C7, impact outside academia. But I think there is significant impact inside and outside academia for his malware teaching; I added four more sources, two of them significantly before the Newsweek piece and two significantly after (including one academic study of his teaching by someone else) that I think show this aspect of his work is not just a flash in the pan and to provide enough depth of sourcing for WP:GNG. (Not added: many more stories that merely quote the Newsweek piece without adding much of their own original reporting.) He was also the author of multiple computer science books in the 1970s and early 1980s; it's hard to find review sources from that time because many of them would have been print instead of online, but I found two reviews (one of them short) of one of his books, a multi-book review including another, and a brief paragraph (maybe a publisher description rather than a review) of a third. It's a borderline case for WP:AUTHOR but on top of the malware material I think it's enough to save this from BIO1E. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:57, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:GNG as described by Eppstein above. This is a great example of WP:HEY. TJMSmith (talk) 15:33, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep David Eppstein's improvements to the article demonstrate that it meets the GNG. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)


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