The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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As mentioned, there is a conflict of interest issue. The article is almost entirely written by
User:Juan_F._Buenestado, who has failed to disclose that he is working directly as a journalist for Martín-Torres. Evidence of this can be seen at
the university website. It is very likely that Mr. Buenestado is being paid to edit this article. He has not disclosed this, which is a major problem. I have tagged article and talk page accordingly. Unsurprisingly, the article exclusively mentions positive items (which is why it reads like a cleverly written advert disguising as a biography).
I also find that the article is thin on establishing notability. Reading through
Wikipedia:Notability_(academics), the only item that comes close is “2. The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level.”, the only national prize listed is the “Special Prize of the Spanish Research Council”. Is this prize “highly prestigious”? A Google Search for
Special Prize of the Spanish Research Council only yields a single result apart from the article in question. Most of the links in the article are either from places he's worked, or research articles. I am not convinced notability has been established, therefore I have tagged the article with not only a notability template, but also a third party sources template.
The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources.
Google Scholar shows he has been cited 8,426 times, with an h-index of 43
The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research - they are named chair at LTU in Sweden
The person has had a substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity, as evidenced by work for NASA e.g.
principal investigator for instrumentation for the next mission to Mars.
As a general note, COI isn't a reason for deletion. A deletion discussion is about the article in question itself. The debate is not about the creator or any other editors of the article. See
WP:DEL-REASON for valid reasons.
Keep - Subject has demonstrated notability as per WP:NPROF. More inline citations related to his contributions to NASA or to his field are definitely a thing that should happen, though.--
Shibbolethink(
♔♕)21:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The number of citations and h-index are enough to convince me that
WP:NPROF is met. It's true some of the papers have a large number of authors, but that's not unheard of, and is not enough to take away his notability. Likewise, the COI has no bearing on his notability.
Papaursa (
talk)
20:34, 4 December 2018 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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