Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Jiten^talk_contribs 18:56, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil[edit]

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Not much for him in multiple sources. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPROF. Greenbörg (talk) 19:00, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:24, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep His work and publications appear to have significant impact, especially in climate change science, in line with WP:NPROF. See for example this profile, which states he is "one of the field’s most widely cited experts". I can see several Book and Scholar refs dating back since at least the 1980s, this review from 1990 for example calls him one of the "world's most recognized atmospheric chemists". I also think the name of this page should be Aslam Khalil to reflect WP:COMMONNAME. Mar4d (talk) 18:07, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I think he is of sufficient prominence in his field to meet WP:NPROF. Looking at Google Scholar, I see that about 40 papers of his are cited over 100 times. His 1984 paper, Atmospheric methane in the recent and ancient atmospheres: concentrations, trends, and interhemispheric gradient, has been cited 566 times, and initiated a new field of atmospheric research by analysing air trapped in bubbles embedded in polar ice cores. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:44, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Cwmhiraeth; this is a clear pass of Wikipedia:Notability (academics)#Specific criteria notes. He is very frequently cited, as noted here. Finding information about him is complicated by use of variants of his name. For example, he is listed as "M. A. K. Khalil" at times. Looking up his contributions with that name, and you see literally thousands of citations to papers for which he is either the prime or secondary author [1]. It is readily apparent that he has had a significant impact on climate change science. A great deal of cleanup work needs to be done on the article, but that of course isn't a reason to delete. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:39, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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