Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Moore (physicist)

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The result was Keep as per consensus. Non-admin closure. Warrah (talk) 01:51, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greg Moore (physicist)

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Delete There is no evidence at all of satisfying either the general notability guideline or the guideleine for academics. The article gives no independent sources at all. (It gives a reference to Moore's own web site and an external link to a list of his publications, and nothing else.) I have searched, and found no substantial independent coverage. Apart from his own web page and Wikipedia, the first few hits were: a one-sentence directory listing; a stored copy of a Yahoo search for the name "Greg Moore" (most of the hits were other Greg Moores); a post by Moore to a google group; a list of speakers at a conference (Moore's name features amongst dozens of others); a brief "open letter" with 75 signatories, among them Moore; an article containing one passing mention of Moore. And so it went on. (The article was proposed for speedy deletion. The speedy delete tag was then replaced by a prod, which was removed with the edit summary "invalid speedies should not be replaced by a prod", which seems bizarre to me: if a speedy deletion tag is invalid but there are still valid reasons for deletion, of course it can be prodded.) JamesBWatson (talk) 14:21, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, highly-cited academic. See here. Several of his paper (2-3 authors) were cited over 250 times. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 00:46, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
keep Very notable in his field. Easily meets WP:ACADEMIC. JoshuaZ (talk) 03:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:56, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep. Stunning cites on Spires, even better on GS with search for "G W Moore". Inadequately researched nomination. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:09, 28 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Keep. JoshuaZ is correct that Moore meets guideline. Hal peridol (talk) 14:54, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:PROF #1. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:19, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep 13,000 hits on google scholar. About a dozen articles ha has co-auothored have been cited more than a hundred times.¨¨ victor falk 07:43, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you search for 'author:"G W Moore" ' you will get only 757 hits on GS. There is another GW Moore, a medical biologist. Nonetheless our subject still gets plenty of cites, more than sufficient for WP:Prof #1. Xxanthippe (talk) 08:35, 30 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]

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