Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Al-Khalili

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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. —Quarl (talk) 2007-01-03 07:49Z

[edit] Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This page seems to be an autobiography, or a biography of someone with little notability. I propse it to be deleted unless wiki guidelines are followed and the article is improved with references added, etc. Nicholas 14:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep appears to be notable. [1][2][3]—Tokek 14:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • deleteRugbyball 17:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Needs cleanup but subject meets WP:N as per references cited by Tokek. Ccscott 18:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. I also removed a db-bio tag from the page before it was nominated. While the article does appear to have been started autobiographically, its subject seems to satisfy WP:BIO handily. I'm somewhat surprised the article didn't exist before now. Al-Khalili is notable as an author, with reviews of his books in Nature and The Economist, among other publications, and some 30 customer reviews on Amazon.com. He's also a notable physicist with a reasonable number of papers and citations on ArXiv and Spires, and an impressive CV. I'll leave a note about WP:AUTO for Phs1ja (talk · contribs), and gradually help get references sorted out. -David Schaich Talk/Cont 00:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep -- asserts sufficient notability in article. Mike Peel 19:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep -- the popular books make him more notable than your average academic and the BBC series is an extra plus. HEL 20:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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