Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by Nobel laureates


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The result was   keep. v/r - TP 01:32, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

List of countries by Nobel laureates

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There are three main reasons why this page should be deleted : the first is the lack of notability because, yes, you find websites and blogs talking about that but the only academic paper I found about the number of nobels by country used fractions of prizes and not the number of laureates to rank countries. The second is No original research, the division of the number of laureates by the population of each country looks a lot like OR and the section about scientific prizes (including economy which is not a real nobel prize) is completely OR. The third is that a more factual List of Nobel laureates by country already exists that doesn't have all the problems of this list and gives the necessary informations to anyone interested about the countries where Nobel laureates come from. Eleventh1 (talk) 09:20, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - The cited references are good. Though we already have a page List of Nobel laureates by country, this page is tabulated and is much easier to read and get data from. This page is a necessary and improved extension of List of Nobel laureates by country. Instead of the names of the laureates for every country, this page gives simple data regarding the number of people that have won, and presents them in a sortable table. The section "Scientific Prizes" can be improved by using suggestions of Eleventh1. If the column "Nobel laureates per 10 million people" is strictly original research, then that column can be removed. But the article as a whole should not be deleted. More work can be done on it for improvement according to wikipedia standards. Anir1uph (talk) 12:09, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Move back to user space - This article was moved from my user page to the article space without my permission. There is a reason I created this article under the "Original research" section of my user page. This article was already deleted once before, that's why I took it off the article space. Please restore it to where it was before (User:Pristino/List of countries by Nobel laureates per capita) so I don't lose the history. And don't forget to restore the Talk page as well. Thanks. Pristino (talk) 12:28, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem, it is done. I guess it solves the issue of this deletion process. Eleventh1 (talk) 13:03, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep/merge This information is notable per WP:LISTN as this and other analyses are found in sources such as The Nobel prize (1901-2000): handbook of landmark records. There may be scope for merger into a single sortable table but that is a matter of ordinary editing, not deletion. Warden (talk) 13:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment. I closed this initially as Userfied, since the nominator had userfied the article and withdrawn their nomination. Since that has been questioned, I'm reverting my close and retagging the article. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 19:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete This is not a defining characteristic of the countries in the list. While the country of origin/residence is a defining quality of individuals in List of Nobel laureates by country, the opposite is not sufficiently notable for the purposes of a standalone list.  Jim Miller  See me 20:55, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Eleventh1 (talk) 09:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - Per both Anir1uph and Colonel Warden, a perfectly encylopedic subject with adequate sourcing. Rangoon11 (talk) 01:52, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep A notable list of encyclopedic information. The BBC news even covered this subject!   D r e a m Focus  17:43, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
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