Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dugald macpherson

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The result was Keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-23 08:53Z

[edit] Dugald macpherson

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NN, i'm guessing. --Hojimachong^talk_con 08:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• I think he qualifies as notable under criterion 2 of Wikipedia:Notability (academics). Further, the book "notes on infinite permutation groups" probably qualifies himunder criterion 3.2. For example it is recommended reading for the following two courses: http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/KMathF/math/diskret/buecher.html http://www.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de/mi/studium/kvv/ws0102/felgner1.html Thehalfone 09:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- David Eppstein 05:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep He is a full professor at a major university. He has therefore undergone several peer-reviews by experts, & I would accept their judgement. For those who prefer our customary WP judgement, by our own imperfect criteria, he is clearly N, for writing a textbook used in several universities is accepted as N. The article should of course be expanded, DGG 06:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)!
• Keep per DGG and Thehalfone. In addition, he is a winner of the Junior Berwick Prize, a middling-to-major British mathematical prize. --Charlene 08:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, regardless if we know who Prof MacPherson is there are no references so others can verify, therefore major problem with WP:V Alf photoman 16:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep but needs major work and further sourcing. - WeniWidiWiki 05:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  • I have done some work on it. I used a citation template for the book, but it is terrible: the first author has a different formatting for her name than the others! Is this supposed to a main author and subsiduary ones? In this part of mathematics, its not usually done like that, but just alphabetically. Thehalfone 16:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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