Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raj Shankar (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 17:03, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Raj Shankar
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fails WP:BIO and WP:PROF. no participants in last AfD so renominating. the alternate foreign language article in Farsi is very bare. I could find sources for other Raj Shankars but not significant coverage for this neurochemist. Given that his research is in medical sciences one would expect significant coverage in English, which there isn't. LibStar (talk) 03:15, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. I checked several of the papers listed, and they have between 2 and 10 citations each. Not seeing WP:PROF satisfied here. -- 120.19.181.150 (talk) 12:35, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:11, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Essentially per nom. Most of the awards listed in the "Awards and Fellowships" section of the article are from his undergraduate and graduate studies, and thus do not contribute to notability per WP:PROF. As the IP above, I tried to look up GS citations for the various publications by this subject (which I looked up at his webpages preserved at, to be certain they are his), and mostly came up with single digit citation cites, including for his article in Nature , with only 4 cites. For someone who was working in an active field like biochemistry and was genuinely academically notable, I would have expected to see a much bigger footprint. Nsk92 (talk) 14:56, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as although sourced and informative, this is still questionable for the applicable notability afterwards, thus delete as there's nothing else convincing here. SwisterTwister   talk  06:04, 27 May 2016 (UTC)


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