Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tao Yang (Wuxi)


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:10, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Tao Yang (Wuxi)

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No evidence of notability. Also see, Articles for deletion/International Journal of Computational Cognition (2nd nomination). —Ruud 11:50, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete There's a long list of books in the article. With one exception, they're either self published (Yang's Scientific Press) or published by Nova Publishers, not directly a major publisher either. No evidence that any of these books has drawn much attention or made any significant impact. Does not meet WP:PROF, WP:BIO, or WP:GNG. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 12:01, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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 * weak keep' Not a major researcher, but certainly some contribution to the field. Given the vast number of WP articles devoted to one-game footballers and utterly un-notable rappers, if we're going to purge our vanity pages, I wouldn't be looking at this one for starters.Andy Dingley (talk) 20:06, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Your argument is fallacious: WP:OTHERSTUFF. Qworty (talk) 20:37, 15 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails all of the requirements of WP:AUTHOR and WP:BK. Qworty (talk) 20:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep. This case is a bit confusing because there's a different more famous computer scientist named Tao Yang at UCSB. But his book Impulsive control theory (published by a major academic publisher, Springer) has 329 citations in Google scholar, and his Impulsive systems and control: theory and applications (despite the unimpressive publisher) has 176. To me that seems enough to make a case for WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:32, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I checked a few of the citations in Google Scholar and while I indeed found several legitimate citations the number might be inflated somewhat. I found some articles that did not reference the book at all and quite a few self-citations (including those from the  International Journal of Computational Cognition) or e.g. citations from articles published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. Something does not smell quite right about this whole situation&mdash;not least of the suspicious language that used to be present on Unicogse. —Ruud 00:04, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The titles of his publications listed in the article here do look very fringy, I have to admit. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:15, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. The fringy nature of his work, the past history of citation spamming of the Chaos Solitons & Fractals crowd, and the apparent walled garden of related articles here (many of which are now also up for deletion) means that I think we need stronger evidence than citation counts in this case, and I don't know where that evidence is. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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