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- Uzi Vishne (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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- Reason: There have been at least two {{notability }} and {{BLP unsourced }} templates between 30 October 2013 and 17 February 2025. The templates were made by David Eppstein, a computer science professor at the University of California.
- After 17 February 2025, I did not see sources for his principal research areas, which were:
- Noncommutative algebra
- The first explicit construction of Ramanujan complexes
- The proof of the existence of arithmetic lattices
- The optimal bound on the systoles of Hurwitz surfaces
- The full exposition of the solution of the Specht problem
- The theorems in the theory of central simple algebras
- The computations of fundamental groups of Galois covers of various algebraic varieties
- The novel combinatorial constructions of monomial algebras
- The several papers which Vishne published in group theory, statistics, computer science and applied algebra.
- The article consists of three sources. One of them is an Israeli newspaper that discusses university studies, not mathematics. Another source is the Vishne homepage, which is a primary source, not a secondary source. Lastly, there are the Levitzki prize recipients as the third source. Tornbild (talk) 23:45, 6 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Israel. Shellwood (talk) 23:59, 6 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Comment: Has an h-factor of 17, but seems to be the author/editor on several textbooks in Gscholar and Gbooks. Would the textbooks not lend to notability? Oaktree b (talk) 00:25, 7 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Textbooks, or other authored books, generally only contribute to notability if we have independent sources such as book reviews with in-depth coverage of them. In this case I only see one textbook Algebra: Groups, Rings, and Fields, to which he was added as an author for the second edition, and my usual searches were unable to find any reviews even of the first edition (to which he did not contribute) nor of any other book by him. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:53, 7 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:35, 7 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- He was a dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University from 2021 to 2023 (sources: first, and second), isn't enough according to criteria 6 in Wikipedia:Notability (academics)? Tzahy (talk) 14:53, 9 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- No. Definitely not enough. That criterion would only be met by someone who headed Bar-Ilan University as a whole (its president). See WP:PROF, specific criteria notes, 6c: "Lesser administrative posts (provost, dean, department chair, etc.) are generally not sufficient to qualify under Criterion 6". —David Eppstein (talk) 19:32, 9 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- He was a dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University from 2021 to 2023 (sources: first, and second), isn't enough according to criteria 6 in Wikipedia:Notability (academics)? Tzahy (talk) 14:53, 9 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Delete. We have established above that WP:AUTHOR and WP:PROF#C6 are out. He has decent citation counts for a low-citation field (pure mathematics) but not enough to convince me of a pass of WP:PROF#C1. And the focus of the Levitzki Prize on "young Israeli mathematicians" (the last two awardees appear to be recently appointed assistant professors) suggests that it is at too junior a level to count for WP:PROF#C2. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:37, 9 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Delete Insufficient coverage by independent, reliable secondary sources to pass WP:GNG ,WP:AUTHOR and WP:PROF.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 17:13, 12 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]