Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Williamson


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The result was Nomination withdrawn. Onel5969 (talk) 21:07, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Mark Williamson

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Unreferenced biography of an academic who does not fit WP:GNG, WP:BIO, or WP:NACADEMIC criteria. Websearch did not produce any support for his notability. Onel5969 (talk) 13:55, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn by nominator
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 * comment this biologist needs a closer look, edited  a book with OUP; published in Nature .E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:59, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Easily meets WP:NACADEMIC. See Google Scholar search giving publications with top citation counts of 1022, 892, 785, 624, or this research impact case study (pdf): "Mark Williamson, Professor of Biology at York (now Emeritus), OBE for services to environmental protection, and his collaborators at York transformed research on Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and created a framework that has since formed the basis for rational policy. Williamson’s (1996) classic book “Biological Invasions” established the conceptual framework that helped determine the direction of future research and its applications. This is the most heavily-cited work on biological invasions published in the 1990s..." Qwfp (talk) 17:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * keep per User:Qwfp.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:09, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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