Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth B. Raper


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The result was   Speedy keep per WP:SNOW, non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 14:33, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Kenneth B. Raper

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Notability in question. Relies on one single source which is apparently published from the organisation he works for. WikiAviator (talk) 06:15, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
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 * Speedy keep. The one source is the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, which only publishes biographies of National Academy members. Membership in the academy is an automatic pass of WP:PROF. Speedy because the nomination is extremely faulty: the nominator does not even appear to have considered our criteria for academic notability, relying instead on the wrong notability criterion, and has completely misunderstood the relation between the publisher of the biography and the subject as one of employment rather than as membership in a highly selective academic society. As well, the nominator has misunderstood even the wrong (general) notability criterion, and based the nomination only on the sourcing of the article itself without applying WP:BEFORE to look for other sources, which are not hard to find   . —David Eppstein (talk) 06:29, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. GS citations pass WP:Prof easily. Xxanthippe (talk) 07:19, 24 October 2019 (UTC).
 * Speedy keep per both of the above. The end of the NAS biography mentions one other easy pass of the notability guideline for academics: The subject held a named chair at UW-Madison for 13 years (WP:PROF). Larry Hockett (Talk) 07:39, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. He's one of the authors listed in the Index Fungorum, and is the author of the name of an important model fungus species. The genus Raperia is apparently named in his honour. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:20, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
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