Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Mackey (mathematician)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 21:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

John Mackey (mathematician)

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I came across this page by chance (looking for George Mackey). But I don't see why this mathematician has a WP article. As far as I can tell, he does not meet WP:N or WP:PROF. If his contributions to Ramsey theory are important, they should be mentioned on that page. This is of course not a personal criticism of John Mackey, simply an application of the inclusion criteria. Simplifix (talk) 13:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - no reliable sources to establish that he passes WP:PROF or WP:N. Besides, anyone who is listed on the math genealogy project has famous academic "ancestors".--Boffob (talk) 15:24, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * keep pending addition of reliable sources. Yeah, it's a stub... so what?--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:13, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
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 * Delete Notability not established. ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete To address Paul, it doesn't bother me that this is a stub (I defend stubs daily at AFD). It is just that he isn't a department head and his contributions to mathematics appear to be minor since they aren't published anywhere or talked about in any scholarly journals, so he doesn't appear to meet any criteria of wp:PROFESSOR or general notability requirements.  And I really, really looked, solely because I was hoping to find some great sources and make ChildofMidnight look bad.    D ENNIS B ROWN  (T) (C) 00:00, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Only two papers in MathSciNet: "A cube tiling of dimension eight with no facesharing" and "A lower bound for groupies in graphs". A subject area filtered Google scholar search also finds only these two papers and a few patents that might be by other people with similar names. Few citations in each case. I'm not seeing any evidence that he passes WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:32, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a John Mackey at Hardvard Math Dept. who I ran into at Scholar as well.  D ENNIS B ROWN  (T) (C) 00:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not pass WP:PROF, unless he is the next Einstein working quietly and not receiving proper recognition from CMU or anyone else, in which case notability will be established later. According to CMU: “Renewable positions that are primarily for teaching are classified as lecturer and senior lecturer.”--Eric Yurken (talk) 03:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, per David Eppstein. Only two published papers, neither highly cited, nothing else in the record indicates passing WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 13:31, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: the bounds for R(5,5) are both obsolete by now; this is one brief step in one case of Ramsey theory. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


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