Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John M. "Jack" Sharp, Jr.

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The result was Keep (non-admin closure) NuclearWarfare ^{contact me}_{My work} 05:19, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

John M. "Jack" Sharp, Jr.

Biography of a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who isn't that notable. Only sources is from the school and there are no other reliable sources to back up the rest of the article. Tavix (talk) 19:56, 12 August 2008 (UTC) Tavix (talk) 19:56, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Non-notable with no third-party sources. Beemer69 ^chitchat 20:58, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Multiple named chairs at a major research university; editor of a journal for seven years; seems like a clear pass of WP:PROF and even more clearly of the proposed replacement version of WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Clearly passes WP:PROF: 280 papers, former editor of Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, named chair at a top research university, and the 2008-9 president of the Geological Society of America. RJC ^{Talk Contribs} 01:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per David Eppstein and RJC. Several named chair appointments at a top research university is already sufficient to satisfy WP:PROF. Also, his CV[1] lists a number of significant awards. He has been the President of the Geological Society of America (see here [2]). Nsk92 (talk) 01:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have added to the article the info and a reference[3] regarding two awards he received from the American Institute of Hydrology. Nsk92 (talk) 02:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If the article is kept, the nickname should be removed from the title. Beemer69 ^chitchat 02:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Already done. Tavix (talk) 03:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Definite Keep Clearly notable as per publication record, academic honors, etc. When I have a moment, I'll have a look at his citation record and add that to the article --Crusio (talk) 08:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I tried, but that is not very easy. There are several people with the same name and initials and after weeding out those that are not him, I am left with only 17 or so publications. Seems like WoS is not the place to look for citations for geoscientists. --Crusio (talk) 17:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is what seems to be a pretty clean Google scholar search. The citation numbers are nothing special but that may mean merely that Google scholar doesn't cover his field very well. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I admit not having any idea about what decent citation rates are in this particular field... In any case, the awards/president/named chair etc are enough for establishing notability. --Crusio (talk) 19:14, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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