Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard J. Sutcliffe (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 04:36, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Richard J. Sutcliffe
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Contested PROD. No claim to notability. All of the publications are small press or self-published. Fails WP:GNG. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:29, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - Subject satisfies WP:ACADEMIC for representing Canada on the international committee charged with producing the standard for Modula-2 since 1987. Article also makes a claim of notability by the sentence Among many others, he coined the terms New Renaissance, metalibrary, and Fourth Civilization. Article needs sources, but AfD is not for cleanup. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 04:36, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Doesn't meet notability guidelines. Couldn't locate any significant independent reviews or media coverage of his fiction writing, and as a professor also doesn't meet WP standards.--SouthernNights (talk) 00:22, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:23, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
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 * Sorry about all these but he potentially fits a lot of topics. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:25, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  J 947  05:02, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sadly since I love Modula. He wrote a textbook on Modula 2, was a member of the ISO Modula-2 working group in the 1980s, and up to 2015 was working with another veteran of that group on Modula-2 Reloaded. But there aren't independent references out there to support an article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StarryGrandma (talk • contribs) 22:53, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. We don't have evidence of notability for his work as an SF author, nor as a computer scientist, nor as a mathematician. (The last one one is closest: he has one paper in graph theory with 43 citations in Google Scholar. But it's not enough by itself, despite that being a low-citation field.) —David Eppstein (talk) 03:55, 20 March 2017 (UTC)


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