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Krishna Kishore

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Fails WP:BLP and WP:SIGCOV, sources are poorly cited and nothing notable to be found within sources. Garudam ^Talk! 17:27, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Kablammo (talk) 09:31, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Authors, Literature, Poetry, India, Haryana, United States of America, and Minnesota. Garudam ^Talk! 17:27, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Poor sources with no significant coverage on subject's biography and career. I can not find in search if the subject was an important figure or was widely cited by peers or successors, or created a significant new concept, or created a significant or well-known work. Fails WP:NAUTHOR. RangersRus (talk) 01:12, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: As mentioned in the article, the subject was reportedly honored with the 'Padmabhushan Dr. Moturi Satyanarayan Award' in 2005. However, there is no verifiable evidence to support this claim, nor is there any significant coverage (WP:SIGCOV) available regarding the award or Subject. Baqi:) (talk) 11:38, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No quality sources SparklingBlueMoon (talk) 15:32, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kieran McNulty

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Academic anthropologist who has moved to a secondary level administrative position. He does not have a substantial publication record, no major awards (only local ones). No major coverage, so does not appear to meet any notability criteria. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:09, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:09, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Animal, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, and Texas. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:49, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. On first read I thought the discovery of "'hobbit'-like primates" mentioned (I think it must be Homo floresiensis that is meant?) must surely have generated GNG, but it looks like that might just be a mistake; according to D'Alto, Nick. In Search of Hobbits. Odyssey, Oct2009, Vol. 18, Issue 8, p6-8 (via Ebsco) he is just commenting on the discovery in the University of Minnesota News. Espresso Addict (talk) 01:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- A quick WP:BEFORE check shows that the article at the time of nomination buried the lede: he is a full professor (research) at University of Minnesota (an R1 research school) and also department chair (and possibly was head of undergraduate studies at some point too), which, with the "hobbit-primate" research (which made national news if I remember, and there is evidence that this research was covered with McNulty's name attached in Nature) is of a research profile significantly above the average professor. A quick search finds news articles about invited speakerships for him, etc.[1] -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 04:53, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
None of being a full professor, department chair, or giving invited talks at universities satisfies any of the notability criteria in WP:NPROF, they are all routine. As pointed out by @Espresso Addict he was not a coauthor on the "hobbit" paper, and making a comment on another paper is certainly not even close to notable. Please check carefully the criteria in Wikipedia:Notability (academics). Ldm1954 (talk) 12:01, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
N.B., as a quick clarification, WP:NPROF#C6 is specific that being a Dean is not a proof of notability, so department chair certainly is not. Being a full professor does not satisfy WP:NPROF#C5, and departmental colloquia are excluded by WP:NPROF#C1e. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:13, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mscuthbert Is McNulty a co-author on any of these papers? He certainly wasn't on the original Nature publications on Homo floresiensis cited in our article [2][3]. Just being quoted as an expert on a topic in the media is not usually held to confer notability. Espresso Addict (talk) 12:28, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:52, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. 149 publications in google scholar seems to be a significant number, and his citation count is high for a low citation field. I think this would probably meet criteria 1 of WP:NACADEMIC.4meter4 (talk) 11:54, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 20:21, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Appears to be around the average professor in this area. Here are the Scopus stats for McNulty and his 80 coauthors with ≥15 papers:

Total citations: average: 3110, median: 1975, McNulty: 1121.

Total papers: 70, 53, 46.

h-index: 26, 23, 19.

Top 5 papers: 1st: 399, 245, 142. 2nd: 258, 197, 85. 3rd: 186, 144, 68. 4th: 150, 121, 62. 5th: 128, 100, 58.

JoelleJay (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. He got a little press for his analysis (not discovery) of Homo floresiensis but he's not even cited in that article (unlike his coauthor on the analysis Karen Baab). I don't think this is enough for WP:PROF#C1 and if we're going to try to claim WP:GNG-based notability based on this then I think it falls short of passing WP:BIO1E. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:15, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Procedural relist to rescue lost AfD
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I don't think he meets academic notability, seems to be knowledgeable, but this reads more as a career retrospective than something showing notability. I'm certain he's a good professor, but I don't quite see notability.Does importance philanthropy as well, just wanted to make sure that was acknowledged. Oaktree b (talk) 00:01, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Tried to find sources in .ke websites about the educational foundation, no luck. Oaktree b (talk) 00:06, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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