Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter S. Albin


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The result was speedy keep, nomination withdrawn. (NAC) --J.Mundo (talk) 13:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Peter S. Albin

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Notability is not really even asserted in the article and a Google search didn't reveal much of note either. Fails WP: Notability (academics) as near as I can tell. Also, the article appears to have been created by a relative of Mr. Albin. ThaddeusB (talk) 21:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep Professor of Economics at New York University from 1960-1972, & Chairman of the Economics Department of John Jay College of the City University of New York from 1973-1991. Full professor at a major university. . Google search for people from that period is an absurd way of checking. A naive article, since the books were given with only the links to amazon, but they are by major presses and held at many hundreds of WorldCat libraries (I'm adding that to the article). And, of course, COI is not a reason for deletion. Three such books and the professorship shows him a clear authority in the field,per WP:PROF.   DGG (talk) 23:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —John Z (talk) 23:24, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Per above. The  New York Sun obit in the ELs makes it clear he was an important figure and has ample information to help expand this to a good biographical article.John Z (talk) 23:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed). His book Progress without poverty is in 513 libraries worldwide (WorldCat). He has several other books with significant holdings. Perhaps the beginning of the article should be re-written to emphasize something other than his work on cellular automata, which is not widely cited, and which is currently a key claim for notability.--Eric Yurken (talk) 01:20, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. That part wasn't in the article when it was nominated — we were only given an external link to the same reference without any mention in the text of the article about what it said about Albin. But roughly the same claim for notability, that he's important for applying complex systems theory in economics, is made near the start of the NY Sun obit. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:41, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep A professor at a major university meets WP:ACADEMIC guidelines. - Mgm|(talk) 10:54, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: That's not actually true. Merely being a professor at a major university doesn't automatically qualify someone.--ThaddeusB (talk) 13:16, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Given the above evidence and the resulting improvements to the article (the original was merely a resume with no claim of importance), I would like to withdraw this nomination. --ThaddeusB (talk) 13:18, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


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