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Dave Farina

Dave Farina (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Not notable; no serious sources — Moriwen (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Science. — Moriwen (talk) 19:17, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
• Comment See the AfD from October about the same individual, under the name of his YouTube channel. XOR'easter (talk) 20:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bands and musicians, Biology, Mathematics, Internet, and Minnesota. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:32, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
• Speedy delete since nothing appears to have changed re notability or sources since Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Professor Dave Explains. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 22:13, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete - This appears to be an attempt to circumvent the previous deletion decision by changing the title of the article. He is not a notable internet personality and his YouTube channel is one of millions that have some followers but no significant media coverage as matters of public notice. Could also redirect to The Lonely Wild if his name is a likely search term. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 13:36, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete due to lack of coverage from reliable secondary sources. ★ The Green Star Collector ★ (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. The new article is different enough from the deleted one to not be subject to G4 speedy deletion, but does not present any reason to reverse the recent deletion decision. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. I mean, i made the article and i think we should delete it. 1timeuse75 (talk) 19:00, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Gennady Degtyarev

Gennady Degtyarev (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Page on an academic created directly in main after being declined once at AfC. Beyond an unsourced statement about creating new naval equipment, the only suggestion of notability is academic participation in D-SELF theory, a very low citation neologism created in 1989. Citations and awards don't pass WP:NPROF and there is nothing for general notability here or via a search. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:54, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. We have no evidence of WP:PROF notability, except maybe through #C2 and the "Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation". We have no sourcing for this (nor for most of the article content) so I cannot tell whether this award was handed out indiscriminately to many people or as a high honor to a very limited number of people. Without that information I do not feel confident using it as the only basis for notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:31, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics

Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This international non-governmental research institute for physical sciences fails to meet NCORP and is full of Original research. BoraVoro (talk) 09:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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Living Textbook of Hand Surgery

Living Textbook of Hand Surgery (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I cannot find any indication that this specific work passes GNG or NBOOK. However, the "Living Textbooks" as a platform (which this was the launch of) might. If there are sources for that this could be turned into an article on that, but I am not sure there even are. PARAKANYAA (talk) 13:06, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment I can't find anything that would substantiate the wiki-notability of this book itself. It might be possible to describe the "living textbooks" platform/series at German National Library of Medicine. XOR'easter (talk) 23:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

  Could be one choice because ZB MEB is host of Living Textbook of Hand Surgery, but dosn't contribute to the content of this peer reviewed "platform". Woller (talk) 12:03, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - I see literally zero secondary coverage. Bearian (talk) 05:57, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

  1. Keep and modify if necessary Woller (talk) 12:09, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

It's not a book as usuual - Living Textbook of Hand Surgery is work in progress as a peer reviewed platform teaching hand surgery using text and videos for surgical techniques. Maybee category "book" is misleading. Woller (talk) 12:06, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Well, it doesn't pass the GNG either. PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:39, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Science Proposed deletions

• Measure (physics) (via WP:PROD on 7 December 2024)
• Evolution equations in high-energy particle physics (via WP:PROD on 4 December 2024)