Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Alty

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The result was keep. Consensus that he meets WP:PROF#C1. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:22, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

James Alty

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Does not appear to meet WP:PROF or WP:BIO. SmartSE (talk) 21:44, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 00:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 00:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Computer science is a high-citation field but I think with five publications having over 100 citations each on Google Scholar [1] he passes WP:PROF#C1. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:38, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I agree, his Google Scholar profile (h-index of 32) indicates a significant impact on his field, as you'd expect of an emeritus prof. – Joe (talk) 23:29, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment frankly I've always found the citation count criteria to be an extremely poor way of judging notability. If there are other authors who have cited his work and said it is important, that's something else, but how can we write a BLP based entirely off primary sources? If this is kept I will be stubbing it due to it being an autobiography and per BLP, and then where does that leave us? SmartSE (talk) 21:46, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - enough citations to pass WP:PROF#C1. L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:55, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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