Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toufik Mansour

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The result was speedy keep per WP:SK#1. Nomination withdrawn with no outstanding delete votes.. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010 • (talk) 22:50, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Toufik Mansour

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Questionable notability, autobiography/resume. Major editor is subject of the article —Gaff ^ταλκ 17:21, 4 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Withdrawn by nominator" see below.--—Gaff ^ταλκ 05:21, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No issue about notability. Toufik Mansour is currently one of the most active combinatorialists on the planet (see, e.g., google scholar). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simone Severini (talk • contribs) 13:59, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have now personally modified the page. I hope that the current version solves the previous issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simone Severini (talk • contribs) 14:40, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:11, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. He's very prolific but that's less important for our purposes than being influential. He appears from the citation record to be a well-regarded expert in the theory of permutation patterns, a subarea of combinatorics that is large enough to have an annual conference in its 12th year [1]; his citation record isn't as good as Einar Steingrimsson's [2] but is on par with Sergey Kitaev's [3], to name two other leading specialists in this area. But this is a low-citation field and he's "just" a full professor at a good university without a named chair, society fellowships, or high-profile awards, so it's hard to find definitive evidence of notability. As for the autobiography issues: Tmansur11 (talk · contribs) (assuming it's the same person) should be encouraged to focus his Wikipedia contributions on the many topics where his expertise can be useful but where he has less of a conflict of interest, but Simone Severini's contributions have cleaned up the problematic aspects of the article. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:31, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- PS I just added a source for him being the first Druze mathematician. Perhaps that's another avenue for notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:10, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think that David's PS is an additional excellent point. I am very much in favour of keeping the page and close the discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simone Severini (talk • contribs) 10:22, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

COMMENT: I am willing to rescind my nomination for deletion, given the above discussion. —Gaff ^ταλκ 22:08, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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