Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Kumhof


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The result was no consensus. SoWhy 10:42, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Michael Kumhof

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Fails WP:ACADEMIC. LK (talk) 04:21, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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 * Note from the article author: "As I understand it this is about Mr Kumhof himself and not just one of his papers. And a quick googling of his name shows that he's mentioned by Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Telegraph and many other well known media outlets. So I'm sure he's notable. But what need to be done with the article to show this? Space4eva" - my recommendation would be to userfy until that notability is shown. Agathoclea (talk) 12:25, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, for above post by Agathoclea. – Vami _IV✠  10:57, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: I find the nomination rationale here rather too brief to be entirely convincing in this particular case. In most fields, we would usually find an h-index of 32, as given by GScholar, high enough to be regarded as sufficient evidence that the subject is notable under WP:ACADEMIC#1, even if (as in this case) they did not hold an academic post. Also, when the first page of GNews results shows his work being taken seriously by the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, there seems to be a very strong case for WP:GNG. Having said that, I realise that economics might well be a field where an h-index of 32 is not significantly high, and that his employment as an in-house expert at the Bank of England and previously the International Monetary Fund could be used as an argument that some of his apparent notability (though, I would argue, by no means all) really attaches to his employers rather than him. But if these are regarded as sufficient reasons for denying him sufficient notability for a standalone Wikipedia article, I would prefer to see them stated - and open to argument - rather than left for the rest of us to infer. PWilkinson (talk) 21:58, 1 March 2018 (UTC)


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