Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prof. E.S. Dwarakadasa


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The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 00:45, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Prof. E.S. Dwarakadasa

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Searches in news, scholar and books suggest that this academic is not notable -- only a couple of articles with double-digit citations, no news hits, etc. Accounting for the possibility of different formats, I used searches specifying only his surname and metallurgy. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:01, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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 * Comment. A search in GS for author:"E.S. Dwarakadasa" gives an h index of 10. Not quite enough. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:04, 4 October 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete. Does not meet notability standards for academics. Verifiability is minimal at best. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 22:17, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep a search reveals author of books and many articles. 07:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Being the author of books and articles is not evidence of notability per any WP guideline. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 08:07, 5 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep: (Possible pass WP:Prof 3) Keep and try to improve. There seem to me sufficient quality academic articles and citations to indicate notability and 1990 Metallurgist of the year, IISc, 1997 Zinc Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Metals, elected in 1998 to Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (is this alone enough?) which I have added. (Does anyone know what these fellowships are? FIE, FIIM, FIIW, FAeSI, FECSI) Also more worryingly there seems to me a serious inaccurcay in the nomination. The nomination suggests that Google scholar returns "only a couple of articles with double-digit citations". As suggested by User:Xxanthippe when I try  Google scholar with E.S.Dwarakadasa I get many more than two articles with double-digit citations. Also our coverage of Indian academia is very poor due in part, I think, to the low quality of the websources. (Msrasnw (talk) 09:08, 5 October 2010 (UTC))
 * GS should be good on metallurgy. Xxanthippe (talk) 10:59, 5 October 2010 (UTC).
 * But also note that his achievements were in the 1990s when the internet was not widely available. So there will be little info. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:10, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * GS is fine for the 1990s as you can check for yourself. Xxanthippe (talk) 11:25, 5 October 2010 (UTC).

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:23, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering is limited to 800, so qualifies for WP:PROF criterion 3. Phil Bridger (talk) 16:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Relisting comment. The article is a BLP so a few more comments would be helpful. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Phil and future improvement. Further WP:PROF "Notes and examples" #11.--NortyNort (Holla) 02:22, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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