Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sedaghat

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:36, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Sedaghat
I cannot see that Mr. Sedaghat passes the "average college professor" bar for notability. I don't intend this to be an attack on Mr. Sedaghat personally. Sjakkalle 09:52, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as copyvio. Professor of chemistry, but it doesn't bother to say where. If you google, you find the Southwest Missouri State University and a very familiar looking block of text (basically, this article is cut and paste from his website, pictures and all). Googling suggests the university may arguably not be in the top 50 universities in the US midwest, let alone the world, so my arbitrary rule of thumb I came up with a couple of days ago doesn't get him in either. The publication list isn't that impressive (five journal papers and two patents, and getting a US patent is notoriously easy). So would appear to be a teaching professor at a mid ranking state university, which doesn't really impress me that much to argue for an original article to be written. Average Earthman 10:45, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing the checking AverageEarthman, the publication record is hardly outstanding for a science academic, I would have to say that he fails the average professor test, delete --nixie 14:20, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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