- Paulin Basinga (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)
I don't believe this closure was appropriate. I provided legitimate points to clarify the raised issues to keep the page, there are as many "Keep" same as "Delete". None of the votes for "delete" replied to the comments. I recommend this AFD be reopened. 12eeWikiUser (talk) 09:53, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy endorse as a bad-faith appeal. The appellant says,
there are as many "Keep" same as "Delete" . That is an outright lie. Even going by nose count alone, there are two Keeps and four Deletes. We could go into the weakness of those two Keep arguments, but I don't think DRV should entertain dishonest appeals even if they have merit, which this one doesn't. Owen× ☎ 10:19, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse. Couldn’t have been closed any other way. SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:27, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse clear consensus to delete. However I do not believe this DRV was made in bad faith. Frank Anchor 17:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you believe the appellant got mixed up when counting "Keep" and "Delete" !votes? It strains credulity to think this is anything but their attempt to misrepresent facts. Owen× ☎ 17:10, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I believe it is most likely the appellant discounted some delete votes for unstated reasons. I don’t agree with that assessment if that is the case. Frank Anchor 17:13, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse - The only possible closure. There is a strange question about how and whether to Assume Good Faith. Is the appellant misstating the numbers of Keeps and Deletes, or is the appellant unable to count, which is only a competency issue? Robert McClenon (talk) 23:44, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- (edit conflict) I think we've completely missed here. The close was absolutely correct based on the discussion, but I'm convinced we've deleted an article on a notable topic. I can't see the deleted article, so it's possible it was written promotionally, and some very experienced editors participated at this AfD, so I understand I'm arguing up hill here. Still, I did my own WP:BEFORE search and not only do I not see any promotional sources (the Nigerian ones I've found so far wouldn't count because they're interviews, but he's clearly being interviewed as an expert - and he worked in Nigeria, so it's not surprising that he'd be discussed there), I think he pretty clearly satisfies WP:NPROF with many published articles, many references to those articles in books, and international press coverage (probably routine). AfD is getting a lot more difficult as fewer people participate and we've always had issues with notability outside specific areas, especially with African topics. Perhaps the deleted article's not worth restoring, but I think he's absolutely notable enough to write an article on, so even if this is endorsed I have no problem if someone wants to write a new draft here. SportingFlyer T·C 23:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- If anyone thinks he is notable, request draftication and follow to advice at WP:THREE. SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:57, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- NPROF requires substantially more citations--by academics in academic RS--of the subject than would be seen for the average professor in their subfield, and for Dr Basinga I believe it is TOOSOON. He had one quite well-cited first-author paper, but NPROF C1 needs several extremely highly-cited papers. FWIW, I ran my Scopus metrics test on ~100 of his senior-research-position coauthors who had 15+ papers (to exclude those who are not in senior researcher/professor positions and thus not comparable for "average professor" purposes):
- Total citations: average: 5183, median: 2459, Basinga: 1385; Total papers: 125, 88, 36; h-index: 32, 28, 20; Top papers: #1: 766, 308, 372; #2: 380, 198, 158; #3: 280, 158, 68; #4: 205, 128, 62; #5: 174, 108, 54.
- As you can see, Dr Basinga is not well above the average professor in this high-citation-rate field (he publishes alongside the likes of Agnes Binagwaho, Megan B. Murray, and John Owusu Gyapong), so his notability needed to be assessed via GNG and that was also found lacking. In the course of running my test I did come across a few red-linked researchers whom I believe do qualify for pages through C1: Françoise Portaels (19364 citations, h-index 73), Susheela Singh (14609, 60), Janneke van de Wijgert (8715, 50), Sodiomon Sirima (7649, 50), Ayola Akim Adegnika (6833, 44), and Joanna Schellenberg (12180, 62), among others. JoelleJay (talk) 05:19, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- The one time I think WP:NPROF might be satisfied... SportingFlyer T·C 07:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you JoelleJay, I am now satisfied. I apologize for being too desperate for not deleting the page, I am happy to learn about NPROF test I did not know much on it. 12eeWikiUser (talk) 09:39, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse. There was a consensus to delete for lack of notability and promotion.—Alalch E. 11:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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