Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Behrouz A. Forouzan

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:41, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Behrouz A. Forouzan[edit]

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Whilst I can find evidence that he is a published author of textbooks, I can’t find evidence that he is sufficiently notable under WP:PROF. There are currently no secondary sources and I can’t find evidence of anything to help improve the article. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 13:02, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete writing textbooks alone does not make one notable. We have to show they are widely used and impactful, which is not done here. We also cannot have an article sourced only to the subject's website. Wikipedia is not meant to be an annotated directory to websites.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:46, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. As a retired community college professor he's unlikely to pass WP:PROF, which is aimed at research universities. As a prolific textbook author he has a reasonable chance at WP:AUTHOR, but as JPL wrote above, "writing textbooks alone does not make one notable", one needs in-depth independent sourcing about those textbooks, such as published reviews or published reports by non-authors about how well a curriculum based on those texts worked. I searched but did not find any such sourcing. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:22, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A few of his books seem rather well-cited [1][2][3], but I have not been able to turn up anything in the way of reviews. XOR'easter (talk) 23:39, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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