Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gil Stein (archaeologist)


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) — ΛΧΣ  21™  13:58, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Gil Stein (archaeologist)

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Contested prod, notability unclear. PatGallacher (talk) 10:52, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

He She only holds one not very important post, and has only one publication mentioned. PatGallacher (talk) 11:08, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. University of Chicago just does not hire professors who are not notable for our standards. There must be more publications, I will try to find smth.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:18, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The first link in the article provides dozens of publications.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:20, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. John Z (talk) 21:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep. GS h-index of 15 suffices to pass WP:Prof in this field. Why did nominator not note this? Xxanthippe (talk) 21:49, 14 October 2012 (UTC).
 * Keep - The google scholar citation index I used (http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/ ) with Gil Stein showed h-index of 33, even more than Xanthippe. Rethinking World Systems has 135 cites, which isn't overwhelming for a book, but passes, IMO. --Lquilter (talk) 01:05, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't advise using this method as there is more than one person with the name. Best to use GS and only count the papers in the subject area. Xxanthippe 01:37, 15 October 2012 (UTC).


 * Keep per above. Added a little to article. As an aside, there's some tangential notability?, dated-notoriety? with the University of Chicago Persian antiquities crisis, with another bio related to that, of David J. Strachman also in AfD.John Z (talk) 04:27, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Stein has several books with >200 holdings apiece, e.g. here, here, and here and a number of highly-cited (~40) journal articles. Taken with the NYT article that discusses his Syrian dig, I'd say that's more than enough. Agricola44 (talk) 15:05, 15 October 2012 (UTC).
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