Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard J. George


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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 08:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Richard J. George

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Came across this article and it seems it will languish on Wikipedia for ever, heavily templated, unless we form an opinion on it. Professor George's claim to notability is very weak and the sources are mainly self-published. The one possible route to importance may be his 3-year Peck Fellowship research appointment, but personally I'm not sure this is enough on its own to meet WP:PROF. Sionk (talk) 00:23, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete based on current content. Almost all the citations are to the subject's own web site. The only other citation is to the web site of the university where he is on faculty. Of course, such a deletion should be without prejudice to re-creation if he is later determined to meet WP:PROF. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:27, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. This looks like a classic case of working hard but not making an impact. He lists a lot of books authored, but some look self-published, the holdings of them shown by worldcat are tiny, and I can find no reviews of them, so I don't think any of them are good enough for WP:AUTHOR. The article claims that he's quoted frequently in the press, but all I can find in Google news archive are stories by him in some small presswire service rather than anything actually picked up by the media, and in any case we need nontrivial coverage of the subject rather than sound bites by him. And his top-cited publications in Google scholar (not counting the Australian guy with the same name who studies groundwater) are 66 and 30 for two business ethics papers, then 22, 6, 5, for an h-index of 5, too small to make a case for WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:16, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak delete as above. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:43, 4 November 2013 (UTC).
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