Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Javier Martín-Torres

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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. No support for deletion. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 20:07, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Javier Martín-Torres[edit]

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The user User:Gerrit says this:

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.

This article would probably need some independent work to address these issues. Daiyusha (talk) 10:53, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

~~Speedy~~ keep. Meets the WP:NPROF test:

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.

Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:26, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Question Does anyone know what "chaired professor" at Luleå University of Technology actually means, in terms of status? Is it equivalent to a "distinguished professor" or "university professor" elsewhere? Is it equivalent to a named chair without the name? XOR'easter (talk) 16:34, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@XOR'easter: Good question and I have investigated further. This vacancy, for a different specialism defines it and as a result I don't think it is equivalent to a named chair. I have struck my comment above accordingly. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 18:36, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sam Sailor 05:00, 28 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]

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