Deletion of George Pirie (mathematician)

Comment: WP:PROF is often beside the point for historical figures; its purpose is to help evaluate biographies of currently (or recently) active scholars whose achievements may be noteworthy even when biographical profiles are lacking. Here, as argued above,  or  are more appropriate, and the available sources are satisfactory on those grounds. (I believe the LMS obituary is https://books.google.com/books?id=kdJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR18#v=onepage&q&f=false here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:BIO)

Comment: It's still the case that one can look at the article and think "what did he do to merit an article?". But I think the standard is met. Certainly we should be judging this sort of person by  or maybe , not .  is really designed around the expectations for modern American research-level academics and even among those it doesn't work particularly well for mathematicians
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:AUTHOR||WP:PROF)