Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raj khanna


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The result was   Delete. Hut 8.5 20:40, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Raj khanna

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Non-notable person. I originally put a speedy deletion tag on it, but in looking at the edit history, I saw that there had already been a PROD tag put on it, which was removed by the original editor, who is presumably a relative of the person in question. Corvus cornix talk  21:39, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable professor. A Google search turns up mostly search results for Hans Raj Khanna, a notable supreme court judge in India, so redirect this page and Raj Khanna to Hans Raj Khanna. Cunard (talk) 22:13, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per lack of WP:PROF notability and secondarily not-a-memorial/obit website. DMacks (talk) 22:17, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 04:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. Google scholar turns up one paper with 98 citations (Studies of proton-irradiated cometary-type ice mixtures) and (under "R. K. Khanna", mixed up with several other similarly-named researchers) several more with double-digit citations (e.g. Origin of the 6.85 μm band near young stellar objects: The ammonium ion (NH4+) revisited). I don't think it's enough. I couldn't find any evidence that he'd held a named chair, and his faculty web page shows no awards or other indicators; absence of these is not a reason to delete by themselves, but it also means that we can't find a different way for him to pass WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:48, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, per David Eppstein. I looked through WoS and there are a few older papers by the subject (at least probably by him) from 1980s that do not show in GoogleScholar with citation rates in the 40-50 range. But overall not enough to pass WP:PROF on the basis of citability of his work and no other info in the article to indicate passing WP:PROF on other grounds. Nsk92 (talk) 00:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)


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