Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Layte


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 21:54, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Richard Layte

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I'm not sure Layte meets any of the WP:NPROF criteria. I don't think the Economic and Social Research Institute meets the same threshold of significance that universities do, where professors are generally considered notable. None of the articles referenced are substantially about Layte, they just quote him, so they don't support a claim of notability under WP:GNG. I wasn't able to find anything substantial about him that would swing NPROF or GNG. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:52, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep I think he's over the notability bar based on citation counts (C1). GS shows the subject as first or second author on numerous publications each cited >100 times. Larry Hockett (Talk) 21:57, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment, regarding nominator's point about Economic and Social Research Institute. The info in the article was obsolete. Since 2014 the subject is a Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. I added the relevant info, with a ref, to the article. Nsk92 (talk) 22:16, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Many of his highly-cited papers in Google Scholar are multi-author, but if one looks only at the first-author or single-author ones they still have citation counts 153 ("The association between income inequality and mental health"), 133, 108, 104, 103, etc. That's enough to convince me of a pass of WP:PROF. And the full professorship and department chair at TCD, while not enough for notability themselves, are also suggestive. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep The subject seems to be enough notable to justify having an article. Ktrimi991 (talk) 21:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - appears to pass WP:PROF due to cites. Bearian (talk) 17:39, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


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