Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Townsend


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The result was   keep. SNOW... Tone 17:11, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Paul Townsend

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notability? article was speedy deleted once before. Alan -  talk  00:16, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Paul Townsend is a notable string theorist (particularly stuff related M-theory). He coined the amusing phrase "p-branes" (referring to membranes of more than two dimensions). He is mentioned in numerous reliable sources (example, example, example). -- Scjessey (talk) 00:48, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. He's a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his articles have been cited hundreds of times and his h-index is somewhere over 30. He helped found M-theory with Ed Witten. Fences  &amp;  Windows  01:21, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I get 71 as his GS h-index. Way beyond the numbers at which any disagreement typically occurs. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:11, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The FRS saves us from any work digging for more debatable evidence of notability; it's a clear pass of WP:PROF #3. But if we do dig, there's plenty more: his paper Unity of superstring dualities has over 1000 citations in Google scholar, and even his tenth most cited has over 300; that's a clear pass of #1, as well. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:35, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep on basis (at least) of cites and FRS. Nominations as inappropriate as this one waste the time of editors. Did the nominator do WP:BEFORE? Xxanthippe (talk) 01:55, 30 November 2009 (UTC).
 * Keep: Passes WP:BIO. Joe Chill (talk) 02:01, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep (as article creator) per Special:Whatlinkshere/Paul Townsend. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 03:17, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note -- the article which was speedy-deleted before was about a musician named Paul Townsend, claimed to be Pete's younger brother. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:46, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. FRS, very high citability, more than enough to pass WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 10:44, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Snow Keep. As David Eppstein points out, his status as a Royal Society Fellow (FRS) is a definitive clincher – proof of this status is furnished at the Royal Society Fellows membership roll page. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 16:18, 30 November 2009 (UTC).
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