Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Omid Tabibzadeh

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 23:39, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Omid Tabibzadeh

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Iranian linguist whose claim to notability is based on having won the Farabi International Award and being editor-in-chief of the journal Language and Linguistics. As shown in what follows, neither is sufficient to satisfy any of the criteria of WP:ACADEMIC:

1/ "...significant impact...": Scopus lists two of his articles (the others apparently published in sources that are not indexed by Scopus) that have been cited once. Google Scholar lists 35 entries that have been cited 36 times (max scores 16-10-2) giving him an h-index of 2. Insofar it is possible to prove a negative, this clearly indicates that Tabibzadeh's academic impact is negligible.

2/ "... received a highly prestigious academic award or honor...": Our article on this award does not list any independent sources and I haven't been able to find anything significant either. From the sources given it appears that quite a few awards are given each year, so this doesn't seem to be the kind of prestigious award needed to satisfy criterion 2.

3/ "...an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association...": dos not seem to be the case.

4/ "...significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions...": no evidence that this is the case.

5/ "...held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research, or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon...": No evidence for this either.

6/ "...held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society...": Nope.

7/ "...substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity...": no evidence for this.

8/ "...has been the head or chief editor of a major, well-established academic journal...": Language and Linguistics is apparently not indexed by any significant database, so this clearly is not a "major" publication.

Finally, the article list several references, some in Farsi. At this point, the first four are dead links. References 5 and 6 are directory listings, reference 7 goes to a blank page, while reference 8 is the only substantial one, but it is an interview and does not contribute to notability.

In sum, I cannot find any evidence that this biographical article meets WP:ACADEMIC or WP:GNG. Hence: Delete. Randykitty (talk) 15:46, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Language, and Iran. Randykitty (talk) 15:46, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep He has received Iran's Book of the Year Award (two times: 2014 and 2020), Farabi Award (2014), and Iranian Book Review Award (two times: this and this). Also his books have been reviewed by several authors showing criterion 1. Ali Pirhayati (talk) 16:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: None of these awards seems to reach the level required by WP:ACADEMIC. --Randykitty (talk) 17:45, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Randykitty Our article on Iran's Book of the Year Award calls it the most prestigious book award in Iran. What level beyond this are you expecting? -- asilvering (talk) 18:21, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Meets at least GNG, probably not Academic. Oaktree b (talk) 22:58, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My guess was right: different mentalities (: Ali Pirhayati (talk) 18:15, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I think Ali Pirhayati's contribution demonstrates notability as per WP:ANYBIO CT55555 (talk) 17:07, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Clear WP:NAUTHOR pass demonstrated by Ali Pirhayati. -- asilvering (talk) 18:21, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For the curious, his Farsi-language article is much fuller than ours: [1]. -- asilvering (talk) 18:23, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep under WP:NAUTHOR or WP:GNG, not WP:NPROF. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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