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. Wizardman 17:49, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Victor Allis (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Biography restored for wider discussion after deletion review because of some assertion of importance. Nevertheless there are currently no independent sources. Tikiwont (talk) 08:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Allis Ph.D. thesis was "Searching for Solutions in Games and Artificial Intelligence", which is quoted by other scientific article 42 times, according to CiteSeer. HermanHiddema (talk) 08:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete no assertion of notability, no reliable 3rd party sourcing, etc. Jasynnash2 (talk) 12:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Complies with WP:Academic #5. "Proof-Number Search" by Allis LV, Vandermeulen M, Vandenherik HJ (Artificial Intelligence, Vol:66 Issue:1 Pp:91-124, Published: March 1994) has been cited 27 times according to Web of Science, which is quite high for these kinds of things. You get quite a few more hits when searching by "Allis LV" / "LV Allis" than you do under his full name. The guy does seem to have originated at least one significant concept and is widely cited. Debate 木 13:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Further to which, part of the problem here appears to be that the article is simply titled Victor Allis, completely leaving off his first name, which is guaranteed to make a search for sources kind-of difficult. Debate 木 13:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Acceptable to BOLDLY move it to Louis Victor Allis? And carry on the AfD discussion? Jasynnash2 (talk) 15:03, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think moving at this stage is just going to throw a bunch of things out, so I'd leave until until after the AFD. People reading the AFD, from now on anyhow, will hopefully read the debate to date before commenting. Debate 木 06:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak delete Although just one paper with 27 citations, is is well under the notability threshold, there is also a book,"Herik, J. v. d., & Allis, V. (1992). ed. Heuristic programming in artificial intelligence 3: the third computer Olympiad. New York: Ellis Horwood." and a few other articles. It is possible t he work is significant, but i can't really tell.
• Keep as a big figure in game solving. He was the first to solve gomoku (besides solving several other games again independently). His thesis is highly referenced. I also oppose moving the page, as "Victor Allis" is the most commonly used. -- Dissident (Talk) 17:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep since it's pretty notable to solve connect four. -- Barce (Talk) 4:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
• Weak keep. I'd heard of him in the context of computer solution of games prior to seeing this AfD, which doesn't mean much but I think is more than zero. According to Google scholar, his Ph.D. thesis has picked up over 100 citations (would be respectable for a research paper in this area, and unremarkable for a survey paper, but quite high for a thesis) and his proof-number search paper is also well cited (80 citations; I believe Google scholar more than Web of Science's 27 cites listed above, because Web of Science doesn't index conferences which are where much CS research is published). But this is all still quite a bit less than most kept academic AfDs. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:05, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep. Seems borderline notable as an academic, but solving connect-4 and gomoku add just enough additional notability for my taste to merit a keep. HermanHiddema (talk) 23:11, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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