Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. David Elworthy


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The result was   speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn, no votes for deletion. Tijfo098 (talk) 09:53, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

K. David Elworthy

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Appears to fail WP:Academic. While he may be notable in the future, I am unable to locate any reliable sources to establish notability at the level suggested by WP:Academic. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 20:14, 6 May 2011 (UTC)


 * David Elworthy wrote the reference text "The Geometry of Filtering" as well as having taught at the St Flour Summer School in Probability. Only a Non-Mathematician would consider not calling him notable. Mathsfreak (talk) 21:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment Mathsfreak, he may well be notable to you or other mathematicians, but notability for academics in Wikipedia follows these guidelines: WP:Academic and your article on him fails to demonstrate this. Writing books or teaching at a summer school are simply not enough to make him Wikipedia-notable. You need to back the claims of notability with sources that are recognized on Wikipedia as being reliable. We need enthusiastic editors like you on Wikipedia - but Wikipedia has developed rules and guidelines as to what is or is not a suitable Wikipedia article, and if you want your work to survive on Wikipedia, you do need to work within them (even if they do sometimes seem irrational).ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 22:43, 6 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Well, we can't all be mathematicians, can we? Arrogance aside, he does pass notability.  Check books and scholar if there is any doubt.  Disclaimer - I'm not a mathematician, but I really like numbers.  Dennis Brown (talk) 22:47, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 00:21, 7 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:PROF (a book with nearly 400 citations in Google scholar and an overal h-index there of 20) and #C5 (the personal chair he held at Warwick). —David Eppstein (talk) 00:25, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Clear keep on arguments above. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:21, 7 May 2011 (UTC).
 * Keep per David Eppstein. Ray  Talk 17:43, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - Nomination withdrawn. I had checked using Web of Science and had inadvertently used the social science index instead of the science index. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 02:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)


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