Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tadao Takaoka


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Tadao Takaoka

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Seems to fail WP:PROF. He was a guest editor of Algorithmica, so maybe I'm a little harsh. Not sure about if his work on shortest-path algorithms is a significant legacy. He invented the 2-3 heap in 1999, but this data structure is not included in any books yet, so it's probably too early to consider it a significant achievement. Pcap ping  22:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep. GS h index around 12 so may pass on WP:Prof #1. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC).
 * Weak delete. He works in graph theory and combinatorics; the publication rate there is fairly fast and an h-index of 12 is not really impressive, especially for someone with a pretty long career. No individual cites in triple digits, so I don't think any of his papers qualifies as very highly cited. Nothing else in the record seems particularly substantive in terms of satisfying WP:PROF. The only thing that gives me some pause is that most of his work was probably done before 1990 and our electronic search tools may not be very good in dealing with old references. Still in the absence of more explicit evidence of notability, I don't think that this passes WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 23:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete per Nsk92. Guest editorship of a special issue of a journal is not enough for WP:PROF #8. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:28, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
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