Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sohail Asif Qureshi


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The result was delete. Partly per the consensus and partly per WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:17, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Sohail Asif Qureshi

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Not enough coverage. Written like a resume. Fails WP:NSCHOLAR. Störm  (talk)  10:37, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Essentially a CV of an average professor. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 12:46, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:PROF (Google scholar search for author SA-Qureshi shows citation counts of 837, 403, 352, ... with 27 papers cited over 100 times each and an h-index of roughly 54, well over enough for this criterion, and spot-checking found nothing by other authors with similar names mixed in) and WP:PROF (the Jafferali Lalji Endowed Professorship despite the difficulty of verifying this from independent sources). —David Eppstein (talk) 04:05, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hold on. Of the top twenty results for "SA Qureshi", all the papers with full names attached are by different people (Sajjad A. Qureshi, Sheeraz A. Qureshi, Shakeel A. Qureshi, Saeed A. Qureshi). I only found two papers by Sohail A. Qureshi with more than 100 citations and Web of Science calculates his h-index as 8.
 * With that in mind, I'm not convinced that the purported endowed professorship at Aga Khan University is a marker of sufficient impact or source coverage. Indeed, I can't find a single independent source that mentions the existence of a Jafferali Lalji Professor at AKU. The article says he held an endowed professorship between 2004 and 2010, but this source (cited in the article) describes him has an associate professor in 2007. This one (2016) doesn't mention anything about it and neither does Qureshi himself on his LinkedIn page. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 09:28, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm striking my comment. The remaining citations are borderline and (without independent verification) so is the endowment. I'm not willing to change my opinion to delete at this point, but clearly the justification I used for a keep opinion needs reappraisal. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Given that the notability appears borderline should we honor the BLP deletion request?
 * Keep per David Eppstein.  Mar4d  ( talk ) 07:41, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. The subject of the article apparently wants it to be deleted, so even if there is marginal notability editors may want to bear in mind WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 09:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete he is not so notable we should go against his wishes and keep this article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  A  Train talk 14:19, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete While the person demonstrates notability, the request to delete from living person should be respected. --Frmorrison (talk) 19:55, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep for now; meets WP:PROF. There's no proof that the subject wants the article deleted; just the word of an editor. I think the evidence needs to be stronger that the request comes from the subject himself. K.e.coffman (talk) 06:06, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * How does he meet WP:PROF, though? –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:44, 6 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails to meet WP:PROF (i.e., the average professor test described in the guideline). Not seeing any significant secondary coverage either. Looking at the author publications, there's nothing that really stands out as beyond average, especially someone who started their career about 35 years ago. Kingofaces43 (talk) 23:09, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing on the page shows general notability. Quick check using Google scholar shows that citation is very low. My very best wishes (talk) 22:07, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


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