Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert J stevens PSU


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 10:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Robert J stevens PSU

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 * No notablity claimed or established, no sources or references for verification - article appears to be vanity entry - Tiswas (t) 13:50, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Un-notable. ;-) Cheers,  R ∞  R   [ iTalk  ]  14:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. No indication of meeting WP:PROF. Sandstein 14:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC) Sandstein 14:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Non-notable subject, article atrociously written (even name in title is misspelled!), with no references whatsoever.  — Turgidson 22:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Clarification. There are two separate clauses in the above: (1) This article is about someone lacking in notability (there are a gazillion associate professors out there -- by the way, what's "University Park"?; also, writing a few papers is not by itself proof of notability), and (2) The article is terribly written, and lacks completely in citations or references.  I stand by both statements.  Turgidson 23:44, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions.  -- Pete.Hurd 20:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete not speedy because an assertion that someone is an associate professor at a university is an assertion of N. However, only some associate professors are usually notable. He has published 9 papers or chapters, and edited one book. This is marginal. (The quality of the article and a typo in the capitalization  are not relevant to notability one way or another. ) DGG 23:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete due to lack of indication of notability. (By the way, University Park is the main campus of Pennsylvania State University, in State College, Pennsylvania.) --Metropolitan90 06:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, now I get it -- I didn't think that PSU in the name would indicate affiliation. Man, oh man!  Turgidson 13:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete vanity page --Work permit 01:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. It does look a lot like a vanity page, and it's hard to find much that's reliable and secondary, but he does have two papers with roughly 75 citations each in Google scholar (along with others farther down the list, mixed in with papers from several unrelated people named R.J. Stevens). That seems like a pretty good cite rate, though not even close to the counts from some publications by his co-author Robert Slavin, who has an even stubbier article. If we're going to have articles on researchers in this area, I think the effort would be better spent beefing up Slavin's. —David Eppstein 06:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete so badly written the person who wants it not deleted added their comment to the page's Discussion page and not here.--Mikerussell 17:31, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not give enough context to be useful; if in the future, notability can be established, the article can easily be rewritten. --Myke Cuthbert 16:09, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.