Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Dwyer (mathematician)


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 15:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

John Dwyer (mathematician)

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No evidence that the subject (this particular John Dwyer) satisfies WP:GNG or WP:NACADEMIC. There are almost no independent sources on the subject at all, while MathSciNet only returns his PhD thesis with no citations. Web of Science and Scopus searches returns many John Dwyers but none in mathematics or computer science. — MarkH21 (talk) 09:07, 11 April 2019 (UTC)


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 * Delete. Even if one would consider his web page as reliable source, there in nothing in it that suggests he could pass WP:GNG or WP:NACADEMIC: only one or two (two in the article, one in his webpage) textbooks at undergraduate level; no research publication, no nonacademic work, no prestigious position; even his PhD in fluid mechanics seems to not having been published. D.Lazard (talk) 09:55, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Also worth noting that the publisher of the textbooks is Algana, which is not reputable and has him as its director. — MarkH21 (talk) 10:01, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete : Per nom. --FIFAukr (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Pileon !vote struck as non-autoconfirmed editor is blocked as a VOA with a suspicious editing pattern. Thanks,L3X1 ◊distænt write◊  01:45, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. I don't think Fellow IET is enough for WP:PROF, as it's more or less "employed in a managerial role and member in good standing for five years" rather than a more selective honor (Honorary Fellowship, a higher grade of membership, might be). I can't find the citations that would allow him to pass #C1. So the only possible remaining source of notability would be as a textbook author (#C4 and WP:AUTHOR). But his books appear to either be self-published or from a very minor publisher (I can't tell which) and I can find neither published reviews of them nor evidence that they have been assigned as textbooks in any major institution of higher learning. So I can't find evidence of notability that way either. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:36, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:38, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. No evidence of him passing WP:PROF or WP:GNG. --Tataral (talk) 22:57, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


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