Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Rubin (2nd nomination)
I am sorry to see that much of the discussion concerns AR's role here on Wikipedia. Whether people have positive or negative feelings about him as a Wikipedian should really not be a factor in their decisions in this AfD and both grudge votes and sympathy votes should be avoided. The nom may be bad faith (I am not sure), but there are in fact valid policy-based reasons for deletion here. On the substance, let me address some of the above comments. In terms of    academic notability (in the sense of ) student competitions like Putnam do not count (academic notability refers to notability for one's research). Erdos number 1 is not   an indicator of academic notability either. It is a well-established general principle in the application of all the notability guidelines that notability is not inherited (being a co-author, a child, a parent, a spouse of a notable person does not, in and of itself, make one notable). Neither is the Erdos number 1 indicative of particular importance of one's research. In terms of mathematical importance, Erdos was a somewhat arbitrary point in the mathematical universe and his name gave rise to the notion of an Erdos number not because of some special importance of his work but becuase he had a very large number of co-authors (I think over a 500 of them). There are many other modern mathematicians whose work is arguably more important and influential than that of Erdos, e.g. Andrew Wiles, Grigory Perelman, Mikhail Gromov, but having a small collaboration distance from either of them is not, by itself, an indicator of academic notability either. In terms of biographical notability under , I don't think there is a convincing case either. The same "notability is not inherited" considerations apply to the Erdos number 1 arguments. As for Putnam, I can't really seriously accept applying  here. Putnam is manifestly not an athletic competition, but a student academic contest. In terms of analogies with , however, college sports participation is generally not enough for passing  either. One is required to either compete at the professional level in professional sports leagues or at the highest level of non-professional sports, such as world championships, olympic games, etc. The same logic applied to this case would imply that victories in college competitions of any other kind (academic contests, debate teams, singing contests, whatever) are not, by themselves, indicators of notability (they could be if there is significant coverage of such victories by independent reliable sources, but that is not the case here either). The bottom line is, I don't see either the requirements of  or of  being satisfied here
— User:Nsk92, 16:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Stance: comment
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