Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey E. Dick


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  01:16, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Jeffrey E. Dick

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Does not appear to me WP:PROF guidelines, and is an early-career assistant professor. For each of the points below:

Arguments for Deletion
1. The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources.
 * No. According to google scholar, he has an h-index of 22. His most cited first-author paper has 118 citations. This is quite good for someone his age. However, nearly all of this has accumulated from when he was a graduate student, and is not applicable to his track as a professor. It's likely he'll get tenure and be successful based off these measures. However, this has not yet come to pass, and is not a guarantee either.

2.The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level.
 * No. He's won awards, but none at a high level.

3. The person has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society) or a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor (e.g., Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
 * No. This has not occurred, and would be extremely unlikely for an assistant professor.

4. The person's academic work has made a significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions.
 * No. As a graduate student he might have (and an analytical chemist may be able to qualify this), but as a professor this has not happened. He is much too early in his career.

5. The person has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research, or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon.
 * No.. He is an untenured assistant professor.

6. The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society.
 * No. Much to early in his career to have achieved this, and has not.

7. The person has had a substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.
 * No. This has not occurred, or was I able to find evidence of this.

8. The person has been the head or chief editor of a major, well-established academic journal in their subject area.
 * No. This has not happened nor is there evidence of this. It would be highly unusual for an assistant professor to be in such a position of authority.

Other comments
It seems like the article was created by a well-meaning student user:Lrandolph 19. The article is overall well written, but is a bit résumé-like and looks more like a splash page that you'd encounter on a research group website, and is ultimately not entirely at wikipedia standard. Though, quite a lot of professor pages are like this so it is not out of the ordinary.

Jeffrey will likely have a good career, but it is still too early for him to be noteworthy enough to have a wikipage. I would imagine it would be exceptionally rare for there to be an article for an assistant professor unless they had won a major international award or were exceptionally noteworthy outside of that. Prof. Dick does not appear to be this case. Maybe in another 5-10 years after he's gotten tenure and has made a major impact on science and society a page would be meaningful.

Please share your thoughts, thanks.

Tautomers (talk) 00:45, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Sadly, delete. He looks like a jolly good person doing good work, and if his career continues as it has started, he stands a good chance of eventually satisfying WPs notability for profs, at least by landing himself a named/distinguished chair. But it's far wp:Too soon. At the moment he's only just made it beyond post-doc, and while getting a good research fellowship isn't an achievement to be sniffed at, it's not a major prize; it's basically a career-step that tens of thousands do every year. Elemimele (talk) 09:11, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:26, 26 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Non-notable early career scientist. Mdewman6 (talk) 17:00, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. His track record is very strong for somewhat at his career stage, but still well below the average in his field and only slightly above the median according to Scopus citation metrics:
 * Total citations: avg: 6637, med: 1214, Dick: 1303.
 * Total papers: avg: 123, med: 44, D: 53.
 * h-index: avg: 29, med: 18, D: 20.
 * Top citations: 1st: avg: 517, med: 230, D: 129. 2nd: avg: 341, med: 132, D: 102. 3rd: avg: 254, med: 95, D: 90. 4th: avg: 193, med: 86, D: 83. 5th: avg: 168, med: 80, D: 78.
 * Top first-author: avg: 382, med: 108, D: 102.
 * JoelleJay (talk) 21:11, 26 June 2021 (UTC)


 * weak Delete. probably WP:TOOSOON right now but very likely we will write an article in 5-10 years. --hroest 01:03, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable just yet based on academic output Uhooep (talk) 20:09, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


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