Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahan Mitra


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The result was   delete. v/r - TP 14:44, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Mahan Mitra

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The article was deleted after being prodded, but then re-created per WP:REFUND. The IP requesting the re-creation wrote: ''Mahan Mj (Mahan Mitra) is one of the leading topologists in India. He is one of the very few indian mathematicians who are actively working in Geometric Topology. He is a PhD from UC Berkeley. Now, he is the Dean of Mathematics at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur Math. He is my teacher. If you ask any good mathematician of India (or may be, the whole world, if that person is a topologist) about him, you will know the truth! I don't know why you deleted his wiki page! You MUST restore it as soon as possible. Please do it.'' As far as I can tell, there is actually not enough here to pass WP:PROF for now. H-index is somewhere in single digits (both in MathSciNet and WebOfScience), there are no significant awards, journal editorships, etc. He is certainly a good and respected mathematician but does not yet pass WP:PROF, IMO. Nsk92 (talk) 15:20, 10 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Nsk92 (talk) 15:27, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 20:52, 10 September 2011 (UTC)


 *  Comment Weak delete. GS cites start 40, 39, 32, 12... h-index = 7. Starts off well but overall marginal for a mathematician. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:49, 10 September 2011 (UTC).
 * delete &mdash; a quick look through mathscinet suggests that even h-index of 7 may be slightly high due to self-citation. this is quite normal in academia, but adds weight to the view that, while this may change in the future, mitra is not now notable under wp:prof.  &mdash; alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 17:51, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:32, 17 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment: "You MUST restore it as soon as possible"? Why? What happens if you don't? J I P  &#124; Talk 09:42, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:PROF. KillerChihuahua ?!?Advice 14:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.