Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John P. Abraham


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

John P. Abraham

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Article is about a non-notable professor. The fact that he has published articles/books does not indicate notability. There are zero third-party independent sources to establish his notability. The external links section only includes articles that Abraham himself published and pages on the University of Texas site. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 19:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Reads like a CV.  Note, author is User:Johnpabraham, which says WP:COI to me.   -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 21:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Already made note of it at COIN. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 22:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Question. What is his h-index? Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:45, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure how to calculate it, though I would think such an arbitrary statistic would not be relevant for determining notability. He could have written 80 zillion important scientific papers, but what matters is if he has been covered by third-party sources. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 02:56, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * For the purposes of WP:PROF, citations to the subject's research papers are considered to be acceptable as sources because they demonstrate impact. These citations are the basis for the h-index, so it is far from arbitrary. The major indexing services (e.g. WoS and GS) allow one to readily calculate h. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 16:12, 3 March 2010 (UTC).


 * Delete -- professor is not notable.  JBsupreme  ( talk ) 07:57, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Appears to have done good work and made an impact at his university, but still fails WP:GNG and WP:PROF. VernoWhitney (talk) 16:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per nom. Passes neither WP:PROF nor WP:BIO. A search on Google Search returned several false positives, mostly for seems to be another researcher by the same name specializing in heat transfer. Even with those false positives, the h-index is 4, which is too low for WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed).--Eric Yurken (talk) 02:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
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