Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kalpana Wilson Bhattacharya


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The result was keep. Star  Mississippi  01:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Kalpana Wilson Bhattacharya

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Only suggestion of notability seems to be around 1200 citations of her work as per her Google Scholar profile Mooonswimmer 12:30, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
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 * Comment - according to the Guardian profile linked in the article, "Kalpana Wilson teaches on gender and development at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, where much of her research focuses on Bihar in eastern India. She is also the author of 'Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and Practice, published by Zed Books, 2012." Her profile at University of London Birbeck includes more academic background, as does her profile at Bloomsbury Publishing, which also states she is a contributor to The Women, Gender and Development Reader. In an online search, I found a scholarly review for another book she appears to have co-edited: Gender, Agency, and Coercion, and she is a contributor to The SAGE Handbook of Marxism. I'm posting this as a comment for now, before searching the Wikipedia library for reviews of her collective body of work to support potential WP:AUTHOR notability. She is also reported by The Hindu in 2016 to have been a signatory of an open letter protesting caste discrimination in India. Beccaynr (talk) 17:11, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment None of the facts you found indicate notability, a review of a co-edited book is not enough for WP:AUTHOR and contributions to scholarly work such as the SAGE handbook by itself will not pass WP:PROF. However, her citation count of 1200 citations with four articles with 100+ citations may indicate notability per WP:NPROF#1 as this seems rather high in the social sciences (and has been enough in fields with much higher citation rates). --hroest 21:29, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I have found and added two academic reviews for the co-edited book to the article, and one for the book she wrote, and I have been adding works, including when they have been discussed in other academic articles. There also appears to be a fair amount of activism she has engaged in with other academics that has received press coverage that could form part of a career section. She also writes in a variety of nonacademic forums. I also think the article should be titled "Kalpana Wilson", which appears, at minimum, to be her common name - I have tried to find verification in independent and reliable sources for the extraordinary claims initially asserted in this article, without success. Beccaynr (talk) 22:00, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Her GScholar profile says her h-index is 14, and according to the h-index article, that is rather high for social sciences. Beccaynr (talk) 02:50, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
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 * Leaning Keep. Far from my area but the GS profile shows 2 works with >200 citations, 2 more >100 and 3 more with >50, most of which are single authored, which seems well above average. I agree that the article should be moved to Kalpana Wilson. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:29, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I am also leaning Keep - I have added more to the article about her career, and I think more can be added about her writing. She is a co-editor of a book that has WP:NBOOK notability based on the two academic reviews, and a collection of work that includes her own book that has been the primary subject of an academic review at least once, and other work that is widely cited, so WP:AUTHOR notability appears supported by information about her career that has currently been found. Beccaynr (talk) 18:05, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added another scholarly review of her book. pburka (talk) 23:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)


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