Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip Igbafe


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn and no delete votes. (non-admin closure) MrClog (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Philip Igbafe

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I can't find any SIGCOV on Google or Google News, nor any evidence that NPROF is met. MrClog (talk) 18:46, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
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 *  Probably delete . A legit historian with a decent number of citations but seems not to meet NPROF. Fair to compare with other Nigerian historians like Saburi Biobaku or Adiele Afigbo which Google Scholar finds far more citations for. I searched for book reviews but didn't find enough to really move the needle here. Haukur (talk) 09:33, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, striking my !vote as per the work below. Haukur (talk) 20:17, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep -- (1) It seems clear that "Professor" is used in the British sense, not the American one as a synonym for lecturer. (2) He has a significant body of published work.  I do not know Mindex, but the other books are with major publishers.  (3) "Chief Commissioner" is probably a status equivalent to minister at the state level, and probably also qualifies him as WP notable.  He appears to have retired in the 1980s before the arrival of the Internet; certainly before it significantly penetrated Nigeria.  Accordingly the lack of web citations does not concern me.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:35, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep (as nom - withdrawn request) per Peterkingiron. I wasn't aware of the usage of academic ranks outside the US. Pinging, if they also find Peter's argument convincing, they may strike their vote so this AfD can be closed as speedy keep. --MrClog (talk) 14:03, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure I understand the argument. Not all full professors are notable. The books may well qualify him but I'd like to see some reviews on them first. I'd like to keep this open a little longer and see if some of the regulars on academic figures chime in. Haukur (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I found reviews for the two London-published books but not for the African-published ones. I don't know whether that reflects a greater impact for those books, a different culture of book reviewing between Europe and Africa, or a disconnect between the African-published scholarly literature and the internet. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:02, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. He appears to be a prominent scholar of the region, his books have multiple reviews, and he also served as a cabinet member in a state-level subdivision of Nigeria. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:11, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. The reviews found by David Eppstein seal the deal. I don't find the comparisons made by Haukur convincing. We don't demand that an American or British or any other Western academic should be among the top few in their country, so we shouldn't demand that of a Nigerian academic. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:13, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep A healthy collection of reviews to count towards WP:AUTHOR and probably holding a rank equivalent to a US "distinguished professor", as well as his political service. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 20:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


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