Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siamak Yassemi

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The result was keep. Enigma^msg 16:18, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Siamak Yassemi

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Notability is not established. I could not find any coverage by independent sources. The only provided source in the article is a list of more than 50 scientists who have been elected for a fellowship, most of whom do not have wikipedia entries (precisely due to lack of notability). The article was previously deleted (see here), but it has been created again from scratch, instead of going through the undeletion procedure. The Persian version of the article was also deleted from Persian wikipedia following discussions that concluded lack of notability. See here. Most of the content seems to be promotional and translated/copied from his own university webpage. Goharshady (talk) 23:10, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:58, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:58, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 00:33, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Warm Regards, ZI Jony (talk) 20:15, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Although references/citations are sparse on the page itself, the subject in my opinion meets WP:ACADEMIC based on the variety of published articles and their number of citations on Google scholar. --HunterM267 ^talk 21:35, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: It seems to me that the number of citations is not above average for someone working in Maths/Theoretical CS, especially given that it starts from 1997. I think it does not meet WP:ACADEMIC. In case of citations, WP:ACADEMIC suggests looking into the Web of Knowledge free index of highly cited researchers. The person in question is not listed there.Goharshady (talk) 22:46, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Pure mathematics (the field Yassemi works in) has very different citation patterns than theoretical computer science, and typically much lower citation counts. It is not appropriate to treat them as equivalent for this purpose. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:45, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ad Orientem (talk) 01:08, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. Weak mostly because the language barrier makes it difficult to be sure. I'm not impressed by TWAS, and I'm not entirely sure what level of honor it is to be an invited scholar of the Academy of Sciences of Iran (full membership would be a clear pass of WP:PROF#C3). But his citation record is good for pure mathematics ([1] WP:PROF#C1) and he seems to have a reasonably high international profile. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:05, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep following JE's comment above. multiple papers with citation between 50 and 100 is quite respectable in pure mathematics. That's the basic standard at WP:PROF, amd is sufficient. DGG ( talk ) 07:24, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per PROF(1). h-index of 21 per google-scholar.Icewhiz (talk) 09:03, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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