Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Kujawski

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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adam Kujawski[edit]

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Unsourced BLP. His work is not highly cited and he has a H-index of about 8 according to google scholar while in a highly cited field (WP:ACADEMIC. English is the language of science, but I could find no secondary sources, so WP:GNG is not met. The article consists of an uncited claim about developing a particular theory, which may be original research. IRWolfie- (talk) 10:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:10, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:10, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Fails WP:PROF and WP:GNG. The claim looks dubious (there would be more citations were it true). -- 202.124.73.2 (talk) 13:57, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for lack of evidence of passing WP:PROF. Citations too low and no other reason for keeping apparent. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:06, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Coverage on Wikipedia of Cold War era eastern European academics often seems to suffer from systemic bias, and this looks to be the case here. While it is not clear from the article, the subject seems to have spent most of his career in Poland with only short periods elsewhere, but it is these latter that the article seems to be concentrating on. Googling with suitable qualifiers, the subject was obviously a respected academic in Poland during his later years and there should be a research record to match - but most of what one would expect does not seem to be showing up on Google. The most likely explanation is that the work we can see is mainly in English but that, like most eastern European scientists during most of his career, he will have been publishing far more in Russian - and that this has been entirely missed. It might well be useful if someone could search for this before the AfD closes - though if (as is possible) much of his work was militarily sensitive by Soviet standards, even this may not succeed (unfortunately, systemic bias is sometimes genuinely unavoidable). PWilkinson (talk) 18:04, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

English is the language of laser physics, there are even English language soviet journals. The claim that a Polish born academic who worked in the UK and West Germany, and never for the soviets, actually wrote in Russia, seems a little far fetched and implausible. IRWolfie- (talk) 00:20, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Very implausible. Kujawski was in Warsaw in 1964, writing at least partly in English, and already in the USA in 1965. We don't judge notability by imaginary publications. As to his Polish publications, they all seem to be on Google Scholar, though not well-cited. There may be other Polish sources that establish notability, but we can't assume they exist. Polish Wikipedia does have pl:Adam Kujawski, but there are no Polish sources establishing notability there. -- 202.124.88.39 (talk) 05:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Lack of substantial coverage in reliable independent secondary sources. Does not meet any of our notability guidelines by a wide mile. Could not find any significant coverage in Polish, either. Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 09:38, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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