Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oleg Shestakov


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The result was delete. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  12:50, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Oleg Shestakov

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No indication in this article that he meets the criteria of WP:GNG or WP:NACADEMIC, in that he or his work must be significantly discussed in multiple reliable sources. I'm not seeing works about him, just what he's written. His activities seem to be par for the course for a professor, but not notable by Wikipedia criteria. ... disco spinster   talk  13:01, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The scientific significance of Oleg Shestakov is confirmed by a large number of scientific works (90 articles, 8 books, 27 reports at conferences) listed here end here. Smallhedgehog (talk) 13:22, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Indicators of quoting of scientific works of Oleg Shestakov: h-index=7. It should be taken into account that, unfortunately, for mathematicians this indicator is insufficient. Smallhedgehog (talk) 13:53, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Number of citations of Oleg Shestakov's articles in scientific journals according to the Web of Science: 38, Scopus: 3. Smallhedgehog (talk) 14:12, 30 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. No evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines in the article, and my searches produced virtually nothing of any value. As for the attempt by Smallhedgehog (the creator of the article) to provide evidence of notability, the kinds of statistics provided, such as 90 articles and 38 citations, is par for the course for a very run of the mill academic. (And fewer than one citation for each two papers published certainly does not suggest a great deal of prominence in his field.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:46, 30 July 2018 (UTC)


 * The Russian Mathematic School (in particular, mathematicians of the Moscow State University) has a high status in the global mathematical community. The status of Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences is the highest academic degree in Russia. It is about recognizing whether such a degree is a sufficient criterion of significance for placing a translation of an article approved in a Russian-language Wikipedia for an English-language Wikipedia. Smallhedgehog (talk) 06:05, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, as far as that goes, the answer is perfectly simple. Having any kind of degree does not constitute notability under English Wikipedia's guidelines. Whether it does or not on Russian Wikipedia I neither know nor care, as that is irrelevant. (Also, if the article you created is a translation of a Russian Wikipedia article then you should have said when you created it, as not doing so makes it a copyright infringement. Please make an edit stating in the edit summary where you copied it from, to resolve that problem.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:33, 2 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Neither his relatively low citation counts (not unusual in mathematics) nor his association with Moscow State give him a pass of WP:PROF, and there seems to be nothing else. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:31, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. MathSciNet indexes almost everything under the sun published in mathematics, in all languages. However, it lists only 27 publications by the subject (with the grand total of 4 citations), while the WP article says that he has over 80 publications. This suggests that the bulk of his work has been published in really obscure journals, and, in any case, the citability here is extremely low. Neither having a position at the Moscow State University nor having the Russian version of the habilitation degree establish academic notability. Fails WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 03:05, 6 August 2018 (UTC)


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