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The result was delete. Stifle (talk) 12:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Azhar Iqbal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

I have been through all the elements of WP:PROF and don't believe that Azhar Iqbal meets any of them. His work has been cited a handful of times [1] but otherwise he is a jobbing academic. Nothing wrong with being a jobbing academic but it does not confer enough notability for a biographical article. Nancy ^talk 13:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. There are 2 obvious red-flags here: (1) the article says "notable for his work on quantum game theory", but gives no independent confirmation or supporting documentation, and (2) the subject is currently a post-doc, which almost always suggests (except in extreme cases, which would be documented) that notability has not (yet) been attained. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 18:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unsourced and unreferenced --Dreamspy (talk) 19:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. Weak keep. Searching Google scholar for "quantum game" led to results in which four of Iqbal's papers were listed in the top 20. So it seems that, if we believe quantum game theory to be an important topic, he is a notable contributor to that topic. However, to meet WP:PROF, he has to make a significant impact in his field broadly construed. For that, I think the results of searching for him by name are more impressive: one paper with over 250 citations in Google scholar. This seems very good, especially for someone as junior as the article states him to be. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:52, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

David, are you sure it is the same person? - the A. Iqbal in the paper cited by 274 "D-Branes and Mirror Symmetry" is Amer Iqbal from MIT, i.e. not the same forename as the article and, according to the article at least, Azhar has never been associated with MIT. The other top hits in the search by name also seem to be this other A.Iqbal. Nancy ^talk 05:49, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I did filter out some non-physics contributions by another Iqbal but didn't notice this one. Thanks for catching this. That changes my opinion from weak keep to weak delete; he is junior and the corrected record reflects that. I've struck out the parts of my comment that don't make sense in light of this correction. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:05, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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