Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanjay Kalra (2nd nomination)


 * 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 keep. Essentially, the arguments to keep are of better quality than those to delete. Concern has been made about the poor quality of the article, but there is an emerging consensus that can be fixed by straightforward editing. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  19:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Sanjay Kalra
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no meaningful reliable coverage. Notability is in question. Fails WP:GNG  D My Son  02:52, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  D My Son  02:52, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:00, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * This should be included in Indian country list. The only thing Nigerian about him is his birthplace. HandsomeBoy (talk) 22:09, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 04:31, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete a non-notable medical doctor.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:22, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Have you ever looked for sources or otherwise contributed to any article nominated for deletion that is not about a member of your church? The imbalance between your opinions of Mormons and non-Mormons is obvious to anyone who looks at AfD discussions. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:18, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I note that Kalra has a Google Scholar h-index of about 50, with all of the articles that I checked being about endocrinology, so it looks like most of those are written by the subject. I know that medicine is a highly cited field with lots of co-authors, but have we ever deleted an article about anyone with so many citations? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Going off of google scholar, he appears to have published 51 papers in the first 175 days of 2020 alone. That is, to put it mildly, quite high. My first thought was that the publication records of multiple people with the same name were being merged. But while I found at least one example of that, the a significant majority of the papers I checked match not only on author name but also affiliation listed in the papers themselves. Maybe at an institute where senior faculty/department heads are added to papers published by any faculty they help supervise? 50 papers in 6 months means he's well on his way to satisfying the criteria of for being one of the 250 odd "hyperprolific" scientific authors in the world. When surveys have been done a fair number of these folks don't meet the criteria for authorship on many of the papers they are listed on. But some do. MoneciousTriffid (talk) 00:53, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete until promotional issues have been resolved. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:53, 27 June 2020 (UTC).

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 04:03, 29 June 2020 (UTC)


 * keep but ughhh So what I suspect is happening is related to his role as head of department and as a member of the editorial board of these journals his position on so many papers as first author is odd. That's not a senior author position in medicine. He should be last author at his career stage. Some articles are clearly not his. And yet; there is no proof of gift authorship or undue influence. All of the evidence is circumstantial. Therefore he very likely does meet WP:PROF as much as it pains me. PainProf (talk) 05:31, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * keep Subject is clearly notable and he currently head some notable positions in his field. Em-mustapha talk  13:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)


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