Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey F. Bell


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The result was   delete. —  Aitias  // discussion 00:55, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Jeffrey F. Bell

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 * Weak delete. WP:BIO of writer for SpaceDaily, website of questionable notability. No third-party references, no significant coverage in Google Books, no Google News hits that he didn't write himself, though UPI picked up some of his columns for redistribution.  He does have an asteroid named after him, not sure how common that is.  And I could be persuaded by an expert that his scientific papers from his NASA days raise him to the status of meeting WP:ACADEMIC, but this has been tagged since September 2007 without improvement, and the page consists largely of wikipuffery. THF (talk) 01:38, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I really hate Me too type arguments, but I honestly think THF said pretty much what there is to say.  Perhaps another way to put it is to point out that while there is plenty of cited material written by Mr. Bell, but I don't see any material about him.  This is not a resume, it's a biography.  It should be full of what other people have said about the subject, not what the subject has said.  -- RoySmith (talk) 02:10, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 04:56, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. THF and RoySmith summarize the problem well. Citation impact seems to low, even though it is not negligible. It is also indicative of lack of research activity for many years, with the only reasonably cited pub appearing in 1993, and amassing a grand total of a little over 100 citations (Google Scholar) during the last 15 years or so.--Eric Yurken (talk) 02:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


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