Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piotr Blass (2nd nomination)
for the moment. I am not sure about his notability as a politician (the older version http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piotr_Blass&oldid=118212248 does cite quite a few sources) but academic notability under  is passable but weak. It is true that he was the editor-in-chief of Ulam Quaterly, which may indeed have been the first online math journal. However, the journal's existence was fairly brief (1992-96) and it never really managed to get off the ground. Notability from editing Grothendieck's notes is derivative. In terms of his own work, MathSciNet shows 33 papers (the last one in 1996), none are widely cited. WebOfScience shows top citation hits in single digits for his papers. Similarly, little in terms of citability in GoogleScholarhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22piotr+blass%22&hl=en&lr=. However, his book with Jeffrey Lang on Zariski surfaces is widely held in academic libraries per WorldCathttp://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14188422&referer=brief_results. Still, for a mathematician, I would want to see some more direct evidence in terms of citability. If judged purely as an academic under , I would probably have !voted "weak keep". I am not sure about the political activities and the past problems with this article on WP
— User:Nsk92, 14:36, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)