Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H. D. Gunawardhana


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The result was keep. Yunshui 雲 水 11:20, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

H. D. Gunawardhana

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Fails to satisfy the criteria under WP:NACADEMIC. It has been identified as needing improvement since 2017 with no substantial changes made. When the article was PROD'd in 2017 it was deprod'd on the basis that it appeared to address criteria #3, which relates to a person a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor. There are no sources provided which confirm that he has been appointed as a fellow - which was identified as being an issue in 2017. Most of the other references/sources are dead links or mentions in passing. Dan arndt (talk) 06:24, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep. A source has now been cited by Russ Woodroofe confirming a pass of WP:PROF. Wouldn't it have been easier for the nominator to do that himself rather than nominate this for deletion? Phil Bridger (talk) 09:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. Yes, I added the source.  I have some reservations about notability, though: usually, someone who passes WP:NPROF C3 also shows signs of progress on some of the other WP:NPROF criteria.  I didn't find it here.  For example citations of his work seem to be nearly nonexistent.  But perhaps he was appoint to NAS Sri Lanka on the basis educational work or service to the profession.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Russ Woodroofe (talk • contribs) 11:11, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. His scholarly output also looks weak to me, with Google Scholar citation counts 21, 19, 10, ... But I just added a source for a likely pass of WP:PROF (president of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science ), confirming the notability already in evidence by #C3 above. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:53, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. WP:NPROF C3, and my reservations are addressed with the source added by David Eppstein.  — Russ Woodroofe (talk) 04:08, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


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