Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glen Weyl (2nd nomination)


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The result was keep. Vanamonde (Talk) 05:32, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Glen Weyl
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No evidence nor claim of notability. WP:BEFORE shows passing mentions, nothing with biographical detail. Previous AFD was actually the same guy when he was a student. David Gerard (talk) 12:59, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete when the previous keep votes argued the person was notable because of how fast he got his Ph.D. to me that is a screaming sign that he is not notable. People are not notable because they get educated fast, and often people who plow through subjects fast do not have a deep understanding of them. OK, maybe I am biased because it was 9 years between when I started my bachelors degree and completed it, but still nothing shows this person is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:19, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't have the time to invest in adding this stuff to the article, but Glen Weyl is a fairly prominent and respected figure. He's widely cited as an inventor of quadratic voting (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voting-methods/#QuadVotiLiquDemo), he co-authored a popular and influential book (https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-Democracy/dp/0691177503), and he's one of the founders of a new and growing political organization/movement (https://radicalxchange.org/). Just googling his name turns up a large number of news articles and videos. He's also at least as notable as his co-author on Radical Markets, Eric Posner. User:Zhoulikan
 * Keep hot young intellectual needs a better article. Note incoming link from Quadratic voting, a concept Weyl co-created.  Recent book was widely reviewed - I added a few of the reviews.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:06, 8 August 2019 (UTC) strike vote of sockpuppet. Onel 5969  TT me 03:31, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The cites you added seem to be material for the book's notability - do they cover Weyl himself in any biographical detail? - David Gerard (talk) 19:54, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * not in depth, but multiple WP:RS do cover his ideas in depth. Page just needs an editor, or just keep it and wait for it to be crowd-sourced.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:37, 8 August 2019 (UTC) strike apparent sockpuppet - David Gerard (talk) 13:01, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Source analysis

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nightfury 20:25, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep Easily meets Notability (academics) and WP:GNG. 7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 16:37, 10 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep The book he co-authored is notable (that's a start), quadratic voting, which he co-invented is also notable. There's not a lot of references that focus a bit more on Weyl specifically but there are some (including some in French). I think he passes WP:GNG barely but certainly WP:PROF. Pichpich (talk) 18:41, 15 August 2019 (UTC)


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