Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ole A. Nielsen


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Ole A. Nielsen

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Not notable. Nielsen is an associate professor of mathematics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. None of the things mentioned in the article explain why we should have an article about him. His publication record is fine, but I could not find anything special in it warranting an article (though it beats mine, and I'm not an expert in functional analysis).

This article falls in a pattern of articles on members of the math department of Queen's that were started recently: Boris Levit, Michael Andrew Roth (deleted because of Articles for deletion/Michael Andrew Roth), Gregory G Smith, and Noriko Yui. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:35, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Addendum: Relevant policies are Wikipedia is not a directory and Biographies of living persons. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 20:37, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 22:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. The most relevant guideline here is WP:PROF and the subject does not appear to pass it. He has 18 publications listed in MathSciNet, the oldest in 1969. They don't show high citability, either in MathSciNet or in WebOfScience. Similarly, the citation results in GoogleScholar are not particularly significant. Nothing else in the article or at the university website to indicate passing WP:PROF on other grounds (such as significant academic awards, journal editorships, etc). Incidentally, his academic title, according to the above mentioned university website, is Professor, rather than Associate Professor as the article says. Nsk92 (talk) 22:10, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not seeing evidence of passing WP:PROF. Along with the book mentioned in the article he's the author of another one, Direct Integral Theory, but neither book seems to have had much impact. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


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