Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maxwell Smith


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 21:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Maxwell Smith

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I might be missing something here but unable to identify how said subject passes WP:NPROF. Surely having one publication with over 2000+ citations and the rest 80< is not indicative of an automatic pass of WP:NPROF. Cannot see any appointments that would qualify either. No WP:GNG pass either. nearlyevil 665  21:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  nearlyevil  665  21:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:26, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I notice this was passed out of AFC by (who has a lot more passes than fails, which I also find strange and worrisome) but to keep it short, I was about to do the same thing as the nom, for the same reasons.  Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 21:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Also note that the person who reverted out the autobiography template (, an spa) claims to be the author but not the subject, even though the history says otherwise ( also spa), and I've left a note explaining WP:scrutiny on their talk page. Not sure what is going on there. Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 21:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Again also, Francisfycollins deleted talk page question about the notability here, even tho it wasn't their own comment. Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 21:48, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete. Only one highly-cited paper, in which they are in a middle position among 10 authors, is definitely not enough by itself for WP:PROF, and there seems to be nothing else. Assistant professors are usually not yet notable and I think this bears out the rule. I didn't consider the odd behavior discussed above in reaching this conclusion, but it also seems worthy of additional investigation. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:02, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - I flagged this as a likely autobiographical draft and was surprised to see it moved to mainspace. Fails WP:GNG  Velella  Velella Talk 08:08, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I concur that WP:PROF is not met, and that there doesn't appear to be any other grounds for a keep. The editing history is ... peculiar. The single-purpose account who claims to have written the article is not the single-purpose account that did create it; the two accounts edited within a few minutes of each other on the evening of the 28th: 20:07, 20:10, 20:12, 20:17. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 19:43, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as the current article is promotional and the subject likely fails WP:NPROF with a modest h-index of 20 and less than 1000 citations when we disregard the one COVID 19 article. --hroest 00:55, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:GNG and WP:NPROFPharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 16:33, 4 April 2022 (UTC)


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