Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Binford


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The result was   keep. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 17:33, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Thomas Binford

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Unsourced BLP since 2008, no reliable secondary sources; any sources found were for the other Thomas Binford. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 04:07, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:17, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Google scholar shows nine papers with over 100 citations each, a clear pass of WP:PROF, and the AAAI Fellow is a pass of WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:13, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't see how he could be confused with the other Thomas Binford (presumably meaning Thomas W. Binford). A googlebooks search for "Thomas O. Binford" gives 456 hits. GoogleScholar results are also pretty impressive, with top citation hits 543, 336, 324, etc. Given that he did most of his work in pre-internet era in the field with short shelf-life for most papers, that's pretty impressive. I have also added the info and the ref re him being an elected fellow of AAAI, where the election citation says: "for his role as a founding father in the field of computer vision and model-based perception in robotics". Plus I added a couple of refs to articles about him in Indian press. Certainly more work on the article is needed, but it is fairly clear that the subject passes both WP:PROF and WP:BIO. Nsk92 (talk) 17:35, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * If the article is kept, it is probably a good idea to move the title to Thomas O. Binford, for disambiguation purposes. Nsk92 (talk) 17:48, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Subject is clearly notable with GS cites of 543, 336, 324, 258.... as shown by Eppstein. Nom should do WP:Before before making further nominations. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:06, 4 December 2010 (UTC).
 * Strong Keep per above. Pioneering AI researcher. Ray  Talk 16:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Probably should've tried the Thomas O. Binford search on scholar, since that found stuff my searches didn't. I'll withdraw my nom. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 17:33, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
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