Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexey Shishkin (mathematician)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 10:41, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Alexey Shishkin (mathematician)

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No indication in this article that he meets the criteria of WP:GNG or WP:NACADEMIC, in that he or his work must be significantly discussed in multiple reliable sources. I'm not seeing works about him, just what he's written. His activities seem to be par for the course for a professor, but not notable by Wikipedia criteria. ... discospinster _talk 13:01, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The scientific significance of Alexei Shishkin is confirmed by a large number of scientific works (138 articles, 5 books, 38 reports at conferences), listed here. Number of citations of articles in scientific journals according to the Web of Science: 12, Scopus: 24. Smallhedgehog (talk) 14:10, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines in the article, and my searches produced virtually nothing of any value. As for the attempt by Smallhedgehog (the creator of the article) to provide evidence of notability, 24 citations for an academic with a career spanning more than 30 years does not suggest a great deal of prominence, and a rate of citations of about one for every six papers published suggests the contrary. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:30, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Russian Mathematic School (in particular, mathematicians of the Moscow State University) has a high status in the global mathematical community. The status of Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences is the highest academic degree in Russia. It is about recognizing whether such a degree is a sufficient criterion of significance for placing a translation of an article approved in a Russian-language Wikipedia for an English-language Wikipedia. Smallhedgehog (talk) 06:06, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, as far as that goes, the answer is perfectly simple. Having any kind of degree does not constitute notability under English Wikipedia's guidelines. Whether it does or not on Russian Wikipedia I neither know nor care, as that is irrelevant. (Also, if the article you created is a translation of a Russian Wikipedia article then you should have said when you created it, as not doing so makes it a copyright infringement. Please make an edit stating in the edit summary where you copied it from, to resolve that problem.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:33, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There's almost nothing by or citing him in Google scholar (presumably because of the language barrier) and his association with Moscow State does not contribute towards notability. Our article says he is the author of five books and if we could dig up multiple in-depth published book reviews of them we could make a case for WP:AUTHOR. But as it is we have no evidence for notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:33, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, basically per David Eppstein. Citability is very low and nothing else indicates passing WP:PROF. MathSciNet, which usually indexes almost everything, only lists 7 articles by the subject, with 0 citations. This suggests that most of his publications were in rather obscure venues. Having a Russian habilitation degree or having a position at the MSU does not constitute academic notability. Nsk92 (talk) 13:16, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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