Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nikolay Nikolov (mathematician)


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The result was   delete. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 18:27, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Nikolay Nikolov (mathematician)

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Article was deproded without addressing the concern. The only claim for notability is the Whitehead Prize. Yet there is no evidence that the Whitehead prize is a notable award, and that is the only claim to notability in the article. It appears that multiple people receive the Whitehead prize, which is one of multiple prizes given by one of multiple mathematical societies in the U.K. While this may be notable, I can't locate any independent reliable source coverage to establish such notability for it in this case. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 20:46, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not meet WP:ACADEMIC. The Whitehead prize is not a major award, and there is no evidence that Nikolov has any other claim to notability. NJ Wine (talk) 21:02, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete per WP:TOOSOON. His citation record is slimmer than the other recent nominations for mathematicians Alessio Corti and Peter Topping, and unlike them he is still a reader rather than a full professor. It seems likely that he will eventually pass WP:PROF but I don't think the evidence for that is clear yet. And although he also has an impressive record at the mathematics olympiads, that's a high school student competition and I think we would need to find newspaper or other media attention for his wins there in order for it to count for notability. (Perhaps someone who reads Bulgarian could look for them?) —David Eppstein (talk) 23:08, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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