Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Søren Gosvig Olesen


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 20:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Søren Gosvig Olesen

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Appears to be a non-notable academic. Sources are simply a link to his profile on university website, and a link to his book on publisher's website. The book is published by an academic press but I can't find much evidence of it being widely read/noticed.

Note: he has one citation in google scholar that has been cited a number of times, but while I don't read his Danish, I don't think it's his work. It appears to be his translation of Foucault's History of Sexuality, Vol 1 Fyddlestix (talk) 14:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Google Scholar returns about 380 results for him, the translation of Foucault, with by the way an introduction by Olesen (i.e. not just a translation but scholarship) among them, has been cited 363 times, and another translation of Foucault gets 59 citations. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:33, 25 May 2015 (UTC)


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Keep: He has however been granted a page in Den Store Danske (Great Danes, roughly), which suggests he's pretty famous in Denmark. He is reviewed in Politiken, a major newspaper. He is interviewed on various websites and has given talk on philosophy on d2r (a serious Danish radio channel) among other radio appearances. An academic article of his has been published in French. There seems to be much more. I'd have thought this more than enough to clear the WP:GNG.Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:24, 25 May 2015 (UTC) *Keep Here is his Google Scholar profile, which shows a very high H-index. His name is sometimes hyphenated as Soren-Peter, so that may have complicated the search for sources. Seems to also be a member of a national academy, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. EricEnfermero (Talk) 01:08, 26 May 2015 (UTC) Never mind. Wrong guy it seems. Almost the same name, same university, different field. EricEnfermero (Talk) 01:12, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - passes WP:ACADEMIC. I don't know how to calculate the H index but it looks significant, and he's in every single library index. I linked to his article on the Danish Wiki (made 2007) - it appears this was written off that one and so had all the "ibid" citation that I think used to be allowed, and it doesn't appear they added any recent stuff. —Мандичка YO 😜 19:33, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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keep per Chiswick Chap, and H-index doesnt work quite well for humanities. Quote from Notability (academics): "Publication and citation rates in humanities are generally lower than in sciences. Also, in sciences most new original research is published in journals and conference proceedings whereas in humanities book publications tend to play a larger role (and are harder to count without access to offline libraries)." Christian75 (talk) 22:39, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
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