Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nayef Al-Rodhan


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Star  Mississippi  20:55, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Nayef Al-Rodhan

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There is no substantive RS coverage of the subject. The subject does not appear to meet the criteria for WP:PROF or WP:AUTHOR. The page is a lengthy promotion for the subject and the main contributors to the page (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Globjulia) have engaged in WP:REFSPAMming to promote the subject across Wikipedia. Thenightaway (talk) 23:18, 31 May 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:41, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Politics, Medicine,  and Saudi Arabia. Skynxnex (talk) 02:52, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete fails WP:AUTHOR. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:57, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 00:33, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - Did you check Scholar before nominating? he's well cited in both philosophy and neuroscience so he meets WP:PROF. He also meets WP:NAUTHOR for his book "Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space" which appears to have several reviews. &#32;- car chasm (talk) 15:41, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * These are not significant citation counts given that Al-Rodhan has spammed his publications into the lead of a vast number of Wikipedia articles where they remained for more than a decade. For example, his most-cited work, "Definitions of globalization: A comprehensive overview and a proposed definition" is a self-published manuscript that he WP:REFSPAMmed into prominent places of Wikipedia articles, such as the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Globalization where lazy academics found it and cited it for a definition of globalization. It's a bizarre version of WP:CITOGENESIS where the academic places his non-notable research prominently into Wikipedia articles, academics find it on Wikipedia and lazily cite it for basic terms, and the citations themselves become an indication that the subject is actually notable. As for the reviews of his book, I could only find one in Space Policy, which says "this is a somewhat curious book: it claims to look at space power in a new way, but doesn't clearly produce any new insights". Thenightaway (talk) 16:17, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * 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.