Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ken Bairden


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:31, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Ken Bairden

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 * Delete. Fails WP:PROF. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 19:27, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  — Frankie (talk) 15:39, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  — Frankie (talk) 15:39, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Apparently a memorial article for this "veterinary technician" (not a veterinarian? not a professor? his position at the university hospital is quite unclear), written in 2007, the year he died. Nothing found at Google except this article and mirrors. Google Scholar shows only a few articles, minimally cited. Unreferenced since its inception. Clearly does not meet WP:SCHOLAR or WP:ANYBIO. --MelanieN (talk) 18:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That's odd, Google Scholar shows me 109 articles, top citation counts 233, 96, 77, 58, and an h-index of 20. None of the top 20 are first-author though. Qwfp (talk) 19:01, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I get similar results on the Web of Science. Normally speaking, enough citations for a keep !vote here, but no first authorships, which is a bit strange. As he was a "veterinary technician", one possibility is that he worked with a notable PI, who put him as a co-author on her/his papers. Another possibility is that he worked for several PIs, contributing enough to be a co-author on their papers, but not enough to be first or last author on them. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 19:05, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see! You searched for "K Bairden", I searched for Ken Bairden. So my search result was just a few articles, none cited more than 10 times, with one (apparently a thesis) where he is the sole author. Some of the articles you found have a lot of citations, but 10 or 12 authors. Hard to find notability in that crowd. --MelanieN (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Although citation record looks reasonable, the highly-cited ones are multiple-author papers and I agree there's no indication he played the major role, so appears not to meet WP:ACADEMIC. Appears that he was part of a successful research group once headed by Prof Sir James Armour (probably a more suitable subject for an article). There are also hits for his name in newspaper reports about an unfortunate incident in 1997, but there's no indication that this event had any enduring notability. Qwfp (talk) 13:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the newspaper reports. I agree they don't establish notability in themselves, but they do clarify his position - apparently he was a Research Fellow and a PhD - and I see that you have updated the article to reflect that. --MelanieN (talk) 15:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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