Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Jaffe


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 06:59, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Jacob Jaffe

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Unsourced BLP for 2+ years, notability unclear Black Kite (t) (c) 23:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete no evidence that he passes WP:AUTHOR or WP:GNG -Drdisque (talk) 05:47, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete After filtering out false hits, like Philip Jacob Jaffe, I find a trivial mention at Gnews and the existance of his Gbooks, but no discussion of him or them. Edward321 (talk) 14:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete no sources at all, propably non-notable. DARTH SIDIOUS 2 (Contact) 15:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. In addition to the above, pointers to his work "Land of Dreams" are actually self-referential and much of the article is WP:COATRACK for discussing "Land of Dreams" and "Hobgoblins". Agricola44 (talk) 16:26, 2 December 2010 (UTC).
 * Weak keep. First off, I had to remove some blatantly wrong information.  That having done, I am not sure one way or the other about his notability.  When he was younger, he wrote scholarly articles, see, e.g., "Attitudes of adolescents toward the mentally retarded".   He also wrote "What's in a name—Attitudes toward disabled persons" and "ATTITUDES AND INTERPERSONAL CONTACT: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONTACT WITH THE MENTALLY RETARDED AND DIMENSIONS OF ATTITUDE ," while he was at Columbia University's Teacher's College, all cited articles at Google Scholar.  So he might pass WP:PROF. Bearian (talk) 21:48, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. The trouble with GS in this case is the overwhelming number of false positives because the name is fairly common. For example, all the really high-citation papers are biology-related by a Jacob D Jaffe from Harvard. What's really problematic is that there's a Joseph Jaffe in the same field, who's written some reasonably cited papers. I tried filtering as best I could using WoS (query = "Author=(Jaffe J*) Refined by: Institutions=(COLUMBIA UNIV OR CITY UNIV NEW YORK) AND [excluding] Subject Areas=(ENGINEERING, CIVIL OR OCEANOGRAPHY OR ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC OR ENGINEERING, OCEAN OR MATHEMATICS, APPLIED) Timespan=All Years. Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI") and then checking results by hand. I found 35 papers with citations: 128, 88, 59, 31, ... (h-index = 10)...borderline, assuming none of these are false-positives. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 22:17, 2 December 2010 (UTC).


 * Please if kept someone add some refs to the article! This was tagged as a UBLP in June 2008 and Unreferenced BLP Rescue will be sourcing or eliminating all UBLPs tagged prior to 2009 by the end of the month.--Milowent • talkblp-r  23:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: no indication that this meets WP:AUTHOR, WP:PROF (takes more than a few cited articles) or WP:GNG. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 15:37, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for rescue by the Article Rescue Squadron.  Snotty Wong   verbalize 19:40, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails WP:GNG, WP:AUTHOR. Snotty Wong   verbalize 19:40, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * It says: "His research was published in national psychology journals and he has made numerous presentations at conferences." Can someone find these publications, and what national psychology journals they were in? Are any of these conferences notable?  I'm searching about for things about the guy, but can't find anything, just a lot of dead ends for people with the same name as him.   D r e a m Focus  16:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * In part because of the Wikipedia article, Jacob Jaffe's name wound up on the list of the most famous scientists of the past 2 centuries. The discussion of this is at So where did Wikipedia go wrong?. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)