Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Britton
Thank you for your comments. On the subject of publication metrics, Wikipedia does rely upon citation counts (and indices derived from them) more than upon download figures.  Of course, citation counts are a coarse indicator with recognized flaws; to mention one issue that has arisen repeatedly, pure mathematicians can have quite low numbers while still being highly influential in their field. Our |notability guideline for scholars and academics mitigates (imperfectly) these shortcomings by making publication metrics only one of several paths to notability. To see how the guideline is applied in practice, perusing Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Academics and educators/archive 2|the archive may be instructive. In fact, this is one aspect of the "sausage factory" that I've never seen addressed very well by the outside press
— User:XOR, 01:37, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)