Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Bruno

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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, as there appears to be consensus that he meets WP:PROF. Mojo Hand (talk) 18:52, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Bruno[edit]

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While the person may just meet WP:NPROF, the current article is basically a resume. WP:TNT would be needed here to sort it out. I couldn't find any sources, although more non-english sources may exist. Mdann52 (talk) 09:35, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:53, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:53, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:53, 26 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Doesn't need TNT, just needs putting into paragraphs. The books are easily enough documented, and will show notability -- along with the impt position of Chairman of the Math Dept of Moscow StateUniversity. DGG ( talk ) 05:27, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • @DGG:, where are you getting the information that he is affiliated with MSU? This bio seems to indicate that his employer is the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics. It makes a big difference because MSU is arguably the best mathematics department in Russia but Keldysh is just one of many research institutes. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:06, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      The same bio says he is a full professor at the MSU Math Faculty, but indeed he is the head of the math department at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, not of MSU.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:08, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
could he be both, or has he been both successively? If he is or was a full professor at MSU, he's presumably notable. DGG ( talk ) 17:12, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I added a link to a book review. I note that his name is spelled Brjuno in the German WP entry and in some other sources. There's also this, which discusses a contribution of his that is apparently known as the Brjuno theorem (page R80), but I don't know anything about this subject or its significance. EricEnfermero (Talk) 10:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. After Eric's hint, I found this source (a book review about the history of complex dynamics) which says that his works are "of particular mention", and our article Brjuno number which is named after him. And the citation counts for him on Google scholar (especially given that GS doesn't seem to include the citations to his original Russian-language work, given the confusion over how to transliterate his name, and given that this is a low-citation field) are respectable, enough to make a plausible case for WP:PROF#C1. Full professor at MSU (since 2007 according to the Russian version of our article and Ymblanter's translation of the Russian bio link) is not itself a notability criterion but is also suggestive; the usual outcome for AfDs on full professors at good research universities is a keep, and I think this case is not exceptional in that respect. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:36, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • PS there are also multiple papers on Google scholar with phrases like "Bryuno function", "Bryuno condition", "Brjuno skew systems" etc. in their titles, reflecting both the significance of his contributions and the confusion over how to spell his name. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:48, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • If this is a person about whom there should be a Wikipedia article, but the present article is inappropriate because it reads like a resume, of for some other reason, then the solution is to edit the article rather than to delete it. Michael Hardy (talk) 14:20, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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