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Page creator restored page via copy-paste move (I think adding a review or two) after recent AfD ended in soft delete. There is a weak case for NAUTHOR notability with (excluding routine zbMath and MathSciNet items, which are more catalog entries than reviews of the sort discussed in NAUTHOR) 3 reviews of one book and 1 of the other. Subject is surely overshadowed by his more notable coauthor in these cases. Redirection to a stub on Quadratic forms in random variables : theory and applications might be an alternative to deletion; or it is possible that more reviews may be found (but I didn't succeed in this during the AfD of a few weeks ago).
Russ Woodroofe (
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11:24, 16 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete. The only new addition here is one
primary source that isn't support for notability — awards only bolster notability if they're sourced to third-party
reliable source coverage properly establishing the notability of the award, and not if they have to be sourced to content
self-published by the award's own presenters. Otherwise, this is functionally identical to the first version, and has done nothing to build a stronger case for notability.
Bearcat (
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14:06, 16 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak keep. The citations might be enough for
WP:PROF#C1 in a low-citation field. And the book reviews look like enough for a weak case for
WP:AUTHOR, even not counting the MR and Zbl ones as too routine to confer notability. —
David Eppstein (
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05:39, 29 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment. If this AfD ends as a no consensus or keep, then the closing admin should likely merge the history from the previous version of the article, since the current article appears to have been created as a copy and paste move.
Russ Woodroofe (
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11:50, 4 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Final relist, since consensus is still up in the air. More opinions would certainly be helpful. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
CycloneYoristalk!06:07, 7 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete. I was on the fence, but contra David Eppstein, I have looked at the citation record for his works and — excluding Bilinear forms and zonal polynomials, which he was not a principal author of — the article subject's publications don't seem to be sufficient to constitute "either several extremely highly cited scholarly publications or a substantial number of scholarly publications with significant citation rates" (
WP:NPROF). I also don't personally buy the AUTHOR argument. Best, KevinL (aka
L235·t·c) 00:27, 11 September 2023 (
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