Talk:Neil Cohn

This article was nominated for deletion on 31 January 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

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AfD nomination[edit]

I have nominated this page for deletion via AFD, but as I am not a registered user I can't create the deletion page; per the instructions at WP:AFDHOWTO, I am posting the deletion rationale here:

This individual is an excellent scientist but does not yet meet WP's criteria for notability; neither the general notability guideline nor the specific guidelines for academics. There are a couple independent news sources covering his work (this is not uncommon in science news, given the influence of university press releases, although admittedly the two sources cited in the current version of the article do focus more on Cohn himself than is typical in these kinds of articles) but they are not enough to constitute significant coverage or to meet any of the WP:NACADEMICS criteria. The rest of the sources are his own scholarly papers, which don't constitute independent demonstration of notability of the author himself. The article was created by a single-purpose account which I suspect was a research assistant or lab manager assigned to create this page, which would explain why it reads like an advertisement. (Also note that this nomination is not related to a previous nomination which was started, but never completed, in 2014 [1]).

80.4.164.166 (talk) 04:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]