Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yesha Sivan


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 07:12, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Yesha Sivan

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Horrible promotional dreck from the day of its creation. Even now has unsourced promotional claims and just bizarre unsourced claims about a putative chinese name. There probably could be an article per PROF but it would need to be re-generated from scratch. Speedy was declined for reasons I cannot understand; you can see the declining edit note in the history - I cannot link the diff because it has been erased as part of a revdel to clean up copyvio that existed even at that time. This needs to go. Jytdog (talk) 15:05, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 16:56, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Notable in Israeli academic and business world who has published widely. Added some sources, reorganized page. Better references can be easily found. No reason that I can see to delete.--Geewhiz (talk) 06:37, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Sivan's citation record in Google scholar (single-digit h-index and only two-digit citation counts) is far from enough for WP:PROF in a high-citation subject. "President of the Israel Internet Association" sounds impressive, and despite our poor sourcing of its article the association is notable as the manager of a country-level TLD, but it's an industry organization, not a "major academic institution or major academic society", so it's not enough for WP:PROF and not a position of automatic notability. That means we have to resort to WP:GNG for his work with the association, or as a businessperson. The JPost article is by Sivan, not about him, and the Times of Israel piece (the one that verifies his presidency) only quotes him rather than having any in-depth content about him. None of the other sources currently look suitable for WP:GNG, and searching didn't find anything better. So, on the whole I agree with the nominator: this is just badly sourced promotion for a not-particularly-notable businessperson, passing neither WP:PROF nor WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:39, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 05:13, 19 March 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete: bio spam on an non-notable individual. Does not meet WP:PROF and there's nothing better. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:00, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   21:23, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a bit of a tough call for me, as the subject could have been WP notable by now. In fact, his career trajectory seems like a hill, with the current stage approaching the bottom of its downhill path (see, e.g., https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5Igo2GYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). Hopefully it can be resurrected, but not going that way right now. Unfortunately, passes neither WP:PROF nor WP:BIO in my opinion.--Eric Yurken (talk) 15:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


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