Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hiroyoshi Ohashi


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The result was   keep. Nomination withdrawn – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Hiroyoshi Ohashi

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No assertion of notability, does not appear to meet WP:BIO. The only source appears to be an entry in a database.  O liver  T wisted (Talk) (Stuff) 08:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I created this article as a stub to link to from plant species articles, in particular, this article: Acer pictum subsp. mono. I am trying to follow what appears to be conventions of the WikiProject Plants. Admittedly I do not have a lot of information on Mr. Ohashi at this point other than what I found on the International Plant Name Index. A Google search reveals that he has authored a book or two and is coauthor of some of these papers listed in the website of [Ibaraki University]. Does that make Mr. Ohashi notable? At this point in time I would be forced to say no, but I have not had a lot of time to research the topic either. I would not stand in the way of a deletion though. When I have more content I can recreate the article.imars (talk) 13:11, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:06, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 00:36, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination and Close - Due to recent edits, this article would no longer seem to lack sources to establish notability. It will still need cleanup, but I will take responsibility for tagging it. Cheers. --  O liver  T wisted (Talk) (Stuff) 12:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, not first or last author on papers with most citations, work is indistinguishable from the average botanist. No evidence of passing WP:PROF. Abductive  (reasoning) 22:05, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ohashi is a published author (see author citation (botany)) of plant taxa. IPNI lists his author abbreviation as H.Ohashi, and the database includes 680 taxa described by him. Certainly notable. Rkitko (talk) 00:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Rkitko - 680 taxa most certainly isn't "average". Guettarda (talk) 00:46, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you are mistaken. Most of the 680 taxa in IPNI under H.Ohashi are renames of already described species or subspecies. He did not describe them. Abductive  (reasoning) 08:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Does that really make a difference? It's still a rather singular achievement.  Guettarda (talk) 13:40, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. We already have a few links incoming from the botanist abbreviation redirect that I just created: Special:WhatLinksHere/H.Ohashi. With as many taxonomic revisions this author has been included in, it's likely we'll have more as we create more plant species articles. Rkitko (talk) 21:53, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a directory, which Wikipedia is Not. It takes secondary sources to confirm notability, not inferences based on querying a specialized database. Abductive  (reasoning) 07:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
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