Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laura Taalman


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Laura Taalman

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Laura Taalman is an Associate Professor of Mathematics with low google scholar cited, no scholarly researh related awards - not passing WP:PROF, she is not there yet - kaeiou (talk) 13:17, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

--kaeiou (talk) 03:11, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete. As the nom notes, citability in GoogleScholar and GoogleBooks is negligible. The textbook she wrote is not widely held, per WorldCat data. Nothing else in the record appears to indicate academic notability under WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 18:42, 14 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails WP:Prof. -- Radagast3 (talk) 11:54, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. WoS shows 2 papers (query = "Author=(Taalman L*) Timespan=All Years. Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI"), one of which has been cited once for an h-index of 1. Nsk92 has also established that her book is only held by a few institutions, so subject clearly fails WP:PROF #1. However, the article does also claim several awards. The MAA Trevor Evans Award is evidently an "MAA Writing Award" for articles that appear in an undergraduate-level math-oriented magazine called Math Horizons. This would not seem to be a "highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level", as described in WP:PROF #2. Likewise, the Alder award mentioned in the article is given for "Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member" – this seems also to fall far short of #2. There are no obvious claims on any of the the other WP:PROF criteria. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 17:01, 15 February 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete. Per above. Good work, all. StAnselm (talk) 08:33, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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