Deletion of Josip Pečarić

Comment: Pečarić is a full member of the Croatian Acadamy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) - more specifically, the Dept. of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences, which is limited to 24 members per the Academy's statute. I believe that this constitutes a membership in a "highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association", and that Pečarić therefore meets  #3.  is met too. (Also, I'm not aware of any previous instance in which a full HAZU member's bio has been ''challenged'' - let alone ''deleted'' - on the grounds of notability.) Therefore, I'd say Pečarić is ''Wikipedia-notable'' (as opposed to just ''real-world-notable'', which we're not discussing here and is something else entirely
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:GNG)

Comment: A difficult issue. Subject passes rof, but should the English Wikipedia be allowed to be used as a battleground for Balkan politics? I disregard the nominator's arguments as I do not see evidence that he has mathematical qualifications
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)

Comment: I see here a blind attack on the deletion proposal. What is stunning pass of the rof -- see the Todorcevic's biography. The same rof  says:  '''The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity'''. As an educated mathematician, I was not able to find source verifying Pecaric's impact on anything academic. We need here people who are professional mathematicians to discuss the issue, not Xxanthippe-type commenters who are capable of spitting out generic and meaningless phrases
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P||WP:P)

Comment: #C1 says: ''The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources''.  Not a single independent reliable source verifies him as a scholar. The opposite is true. In the discussion I gave clear example of the #C1 citing a piece of the Todorcevic's biography. This Pecaric is not nowhere near a serious scholar. The membership in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is a third rate institution membership
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: There may be some additional BLP and  issues here that are not reflected in the article and have not been mentioned by the nominator but are perhaps worth considering. It appears that the subject may also be a proponent of some  views and historical theories. There is a news-report http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2015&mm=08&dd=25&nav_id=95208 mentioning him having signed a petition to the President of Croatia in favor of Croatia restoring the traditional Ustaše salute. I have also found additional reports of the subject making speeches in support of the same position. He has written a book https://books.google.com/books/about/Serbian_Myth_about_Jasenovac.html?id=ofEhAQAAIAAJ which appears http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/bulajic.htm to try to drastically minimize the number of deaths at the Jasenovac concentration camp during WWII. There is probably more here if one digs further. If we are dealing with a significant  case here, then perhaps the situation needs to be re-evaluated from scratch. It would be helpful if the nominator stayed out of the discussion for the moment, to keep things calm and prevent another escalation. But I would really like to hear what other discussion participants think
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Fringe theories (WP:FRINGE||WP:FRINGE||WP:FRINGE)

Comment: Stunning pass of rof. Subject's talk page has been turned into attack site by nom. Bad faith nomination
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)