Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark C. Urban


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) -- Dane 2007  talk 01:12, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Mark C. Urban

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Academic whois an american associate professor which does not usually convey inherent notability. He has published widely as would be expected and won an award from a learned society but nothing here speaks to significant notability as an academic.  Velella  Velella Talk 21:58, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

As per Wiki guidelines on notability, Urban has received "significant awards or honors" including his research highlighted as #15 in the top 100 discoveries of 2015 in the world Discover Magazine, and receiving both Presidential Award and Young Investigator awards from American Society of Naturalists, the top biological professional society in the US.
 * Notability guidelines for academics met as per Wikipedia

As per Wikipedia guidelines on notability, Urban has made "widely recognized contributions to field" in his work on extinctions from global warming, which was referenced from another wikipedia page extinction risk from global warming and coverage by international print and televised media: New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, BBC, Associated Press, National Geographic, etc. His work has also been independently and secondarily covered in top international scientific journals, including Science and Nature.

As per Wikipedia guidelines, Academics can be notable in the world of ideas without biographies being the subject of secondary sources (although Urban is in this case).Nicholasarisco (talk) 12:46, 26 July 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak keep. It's not unprecedented to have a notable associate professor, who is after all, tenured. (See e.g., Articles_for_deletion/Jessica_Wilson, Barbette Spaeth.) The subject is the classic rising star in academia. Bearian (talk) 21:49, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:40, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. has already demonstrated a pass of WP:GNG but he also passes WP:PROF with many highly-cited publicatlons (e.g. 9 with over 100 citations each in Google scholar). —David Eppstein (talk) 05:44, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
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