Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Max Gunzburger

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.

Result was Keep. — Caknuck 05:44, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Max Gunzburger

Template:La – (View log)

Non-notable professor, does not satisfy WP:PROF. Dsreyn 17:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd 19:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete An extensive search finds no significant publications, citations or awards — iridescenti (talk to me!) 23:07, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Once more a holder of a distinguished named chair at Florida State. Scopus shows 129 publications the 5 with the highest citations are 144, 96, 72, 43, and 36. This is high for applied mathematics. The top articles are in SIAM Review a very prestigious journal published by the major professional society. I have added them to the article. The name he publishes under is Max D. Gunzburger -- Iridescenti, might this have affected your results? Google Scholar shows 967 hits !! DGG 03:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)DGG 03:47, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Based on his CV he's clearly notable. To start with, he's editor-in-chief of the SIAM journal on numerical analysis, arguably the top journal in his field (numerical analysis); that should suffice to establish notability. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 03:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC) (via edit conflict)
• Keep per DGG and Jitse. DickClarkMises 13:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep in light of research by DGG - I'll concede I never thought to search using his middle initial — iridescenti (talk to me!) 19:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per the comments above, passes the WP:PROF test. RFerreira 07:25, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
• Conditional Keep, only if notability is asserted in the article (for example, his status as editor in chief of the SIAM journal). I think it's peculiar that people feel so strongly about keeping all of these FSU professor articles, but nobody cares enough to add the appropriate biographical details to the articles. fbb_fan 16:09, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Your comments are particularly ironic...given your first sentence and your own reluctance to edit the article. --C S (Talk) 05:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Well said, User:C S. I actually took the time to edit the article and add info to it before registering my vote below (I had no idea how I will vote until I did that), and then went back and added the bit about the editorship after reading about it here (and confirming it with Gunzburger's vita). I don't say this can always be done, but when it doesn't require too much effort, why not just do it, instead of berating others for not doing it? Turgidson 03:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. He has 151 publications listed on MathSciNet, 702 citations by 429 authors (that's a lot!), and Erdős number 2 (Gunzburger—Faber—Erdős). No question about it. Turgidson 02:54, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. I see no reason to delete a Distinguished Professor. Part of a series of badly-thought-out AFD nominations on FSU researchers by Dsreyn. --C S (Talk) 05:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
• Keep -- he is a leading scholar in applied mathematics and his record shows it. His contribbutions are both explained and references in the article. This is an easy case and the overzealous effort to purge distinguished FSU faculty should be sanctioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.180.216.26 (talk • contribs)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.