Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dario Floreano

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The result was keep. John254 02:17, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dario Floreano

Apparently non-notable scientist; fails WP:PROF/WP:BIO due to a lack of substantial coverage in reliable third-party sources. See also the related Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Non-notable EPFL robots. Sandstein (talk) 00:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC) Withdrawn per David. Sandstein (talk) 06:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: NN. Google news only brings back articles with mentions of the name. - Rjd0060 (talk) 00:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd (talk) 05:08, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Academics can be notable for their appearance in the popular press, but more often are notable for their academic achievements. Floreano has quite a respectable publication and citation record. For some third-party publications specifically about Floreano's work, see e.g. Dorigo, Marco; Colombetti, Marco (1997), "Reply to Dario Floreano's Engineering Adaptive Behavior", Adaptive Behavior, 5 (3–4): 417–420; Lipson, H. (2001), "Uncontrolled Engineering: A review of Nolfi and Floreano's Evolutionary Robotics" (PDF), Artificial Life, 7 (4): 419–424; Di Paolo, E. A. (2002), "Review of "Evolutionary Robotics" by S. Nolfi and D. Floreano", Connection Science, 14: 88–91; Pham, D. T. (2002), "Book Reviews: Evolutionary Robotics", Robotica, 20: 569–571, doi:10.1017/S0263574702234232; Parsons, Simon (2004), "Book Review: Evolutionary Robotics", The Knowledge Engineering Review, 19: 381–383, doi:10.1017/S0269888905230357; Gomi, Takashi (2003), "Book Review: Evolutionary Robotics: the Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 4 (1): 95–98, doi:10.1023/A:1021829228076; Lipson, Hod (2001), "Book Review: Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines", Artificial Life, 7 (4): 419–424, doi:10.1162/106454601317297031; Krichmar, Jeffrey L. (2001), "Book and Software Reviews: Evolutionary robotics: The biology, intelligence, and technology of self-organizing machines", Complexity, 6 (3): 51–53, doi:10.1002/cplx.1029; etc. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:29, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per David Eppstein. In addition, Floreano is on the Editorial Boards of 8 journals, a good indication that his peers find him notable in his field. Both Web of Science and Google Scholar list many publications, with reasonable (WoS) to very good (GS) citation rates. --Crusio (talk) 08:00, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per David Eppstein. -- ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits} 11:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Featured in important journals. Rama (talk) 12:57, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - per David Eppstein and Crusio. This looks like a serious academic to me, with solid publication record, employment at a top University, and with impact outside academia, to boot. Turgidson (talk) 00:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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