Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John H. Hoffman


 * 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   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 17:25, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

John H. Hoffman

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Unreferenced for 2+ years, notability not clear Black Kite (t) (c) 23:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - I can find several lectures, articles et cetera by him but nothing about him. Therefore doesn't pass the general notability guidelines and should be deleted. - DustFormsWords (talk) 00:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete, h-index is about 7. Abductive  (reasoning) 01:32, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep This article covers his work for Apollo in some detail (several paragraphs, unfortunately behind a paywall, but I can provide a copy for anybody who wants it - or anybody with University access to Lexis can get it for themselves). Similarly, there's non-trivial coverage of his work in the Pegasus News here, in the Mars Daily here ,  here, and so on. He appears to be one of the key people NASA uses to make instruments for the study of extraterrestrial atmospheres.  Ray  Talk 03:06, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * These sources do not analyze the topic of John H. Hoffman, they talk about projects he's involved with. Misunderstandings of the way sources are associated with academics is why WP:PROF was created. Abductive  (reasoning) 09:16, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:22, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment If this discussion goes against my position, I request that the closing admin userfy the article in my userspace. I'll be happy to see what I can do to produce a sourced stub when I have more time over the upcoming holidays. Ray  Talk 03:08, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Ray, sources establishing notability do seem to exist, though some may be harder to obtain.--Milowent • talkblp-r 07:25, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- -- Cirt (talk) 06:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep of this NASA engineer. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC).
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