Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ramnath Chellappa

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 00:05, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ramnath Chellappa[edit]

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Subject is constantly spammed into the cloud computing article with a tenuous "first academic definition" that predates the term by well over a decade. It occurred to me that subject may not even be verifiably notable and sure enough his article was tagged with {{notability}}. I further suspect WP:COI violations giving rise to WP:N, WP:V, WP:NPOV and other policy violations. -- samj _in ^out 04:10, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment it is possible that he did coin that definition in 1997, possibly in the book Readings in electronic commerce. He was getting close to that idea in his 1996 article "The design and development of internet-and intranet-based collaboratories". --Bejnar (talk) 05:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Even if that were true (I sincerely doubt it - and in any case it doesn't matter when the concept developed organically & independently... the role of identifying the theoretical possibility was filled by John McCarthy almost 40 years prior)... it's irrelevant for this discussion. The reason for mentioning it was to explain how we got to AfD. -- samj _in ^out 08:50, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:25, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. With GS h index of 10 he does not appear to pass WP:Prof #1. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:02, 24 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Delete per Xanthippe and per rank of associate professor. Ray^Talk 03:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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