Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ari Brynjolfsson

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Fails WP:PROF and does not seem notable. Page is essentially serving as a coatrack for fringe ideas (and maybe even a soapbox for such). jps (talk) 23:17, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:49, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

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• Weak whatever. GS h-index of 10 for mainstream work on food irradiation. DSc from the Niels Bohrs Institute. Some low-cited arXiv papers on fringe topic of plasma cosmology. Not sure. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:15, 1 December 2013 (UTC).

• Keep, Ari was Director for the radiation facilities of the U.S. Army and Danish Government, as well as the Director for the IAEA. His contributions are not numerous but as the director elevated to the highest position of government authority, his contributions represented decisive arbitration. Notable status is beyond dispute on these grounds alone. Orrerysky (talk) 15:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

:* If you have a source stating that Brynjolfsson was the Director of the IAEA, please cite it. The article states that he was director of "International Facility for Food Irradiation Technology" at the IAEA - not the same thing at all. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:03, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

::* I too would like to see RS for that claim, and many others in the article. -- Brangifer (talk) 22:55, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

::* The article quite correctly states Ary's appointments; of course, he was never 'director of IAEA'. He was director of IFFIT (International Facility for Food Irradiation Training at Wageningen, Netherlands) which was an institution of IAEA. He was never director of US radiation facilities, but at the US Army Natick Facilities he was head of the food irradiation programme (I do not remember his title at this position). SCOPUS lists 8 publications, 6 of them are about food irradiation. His merrits are about promoting fi through international activities. I join the motion to Keep this article. Dieter E (talk) 11:14, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

::* A colleague has just given me the correct position: He became head of Radiation Facilities at the Danish Atomic Energy Commission's Research Facility at Risø; now correct in article. Dieter E (talk) 18:53, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

• Keep. I expected to be regretfully saying delete this, but I found a heavy book ref, and his positions as documented in the online CV were indeed high ones. I see several other refs have now been added, including Icelandic newspaper coverage. It should be noted when searching for more of those that the native spelling of his patronymic is Brynjólfsson. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:26, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

::Searching for "A Brynjólfsson" in GS doen't improve the cites. Note that there are other "Brynjólfsson"s with vast numbers of cites but these are different people. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:39, 1 December 2013 (UTC).

:::It will help greatly when searching for Icelandic newspaper coverage, however, and that's what I was referring to. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:28, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

• Keep: WP:GNG gives the criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". The cited references in this article include (1) a national newspaper [http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=62935&pageId=1060528&lang=is&q=Ari%20Brynjólfsson front page headline and article] with photograph, (2) a [http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=264962&pageId=3741630&lang=en&q=Ari%20Brynjólfsson double page spread article] about him in a national newspaper which refers to his work on the irradiation of food by describing him as "...talinn i hópi fremstu visindamanna i heiminum á sinu sviði." ("...considered one of the leading scientists in the world in their field."), and (3) an [http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=165632481 obituary] in the Boston Globe. I consider that these satisfy WP:GNG. Hebrides (talk) 13:08, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
• Keep. Appears to meet notability guidelines. However, per WP:FRINGE and WP:UNDUE, it is important that this article does not become a coatrack for the promotion of Brynjolfsson's Plasma-Redshift Cosmology theories. Any coverage of this needs to be in proportion to coverage elsewhere in mainstream reliable sources - which is to say, minimal. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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