Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Tisdall
I think any notability is going to have to rest on either his book publishing or his music; as a research scholar I don't think he passes . At least, I tried a fairly wide search on Google scholar, filtering out names that were clearly not his http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=author:j-tisdall+-author:cj-tisdall+-author:jm-tisdall+-author:dj-tisdall+-author:wj-tisdall+-author:lj-tisdall&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0; two of the top hits are his two Perl books, with 62 and 28 citations each, two other hits with around 30 papers each are bioinformatics papers that might or might not be by him but I'm leaning towards not (the Telometric one has a mismatched affiliation and uses Java instead of Perl, and the other one is too noncomputational and too old). The next one that I think is by him (also by me) is a minor paper in computational complexity theory (neither of our specialties) with only 9 citations. So, as far as  #1 goes, that's not enough. I added to the article a couple of published reviews of his Beginning Perl book, though, so that's at least a step towards . And I have no strong opinion on the music; notability is not inherited, so just working with Nico is not enough, but maybe enough reliable sources can be turned up in that direction to demonstrate notability
— User:David, 23:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)