Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurence Baxter
The evidence in terms of citability is certainly weak and I am fairly sure that memberships in various societies mentioned were just ordinary memberships rather than elected ones. However, in addition to the memorial article in ''Naval Research Logistics''http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/53642/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 mentioned by Crusio, MathSciNet also gave another memorial article about him: Leitmann, George. ''In memoriam: Laurence Alan Baxter 1954--1996.''  Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 210 (1997), no. 2, pp. 417--418. It should be noted, however, that Baxter was an editor for both of these journals.  I downloaded the memorial article from Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. It does say the follwing regarding his work:"Dr. Baxter was internationally renowned for his work in applied probability and reliability theory. He published over 45 papers and did extensive consulting in this area. The results of his work on separately maintained components have been incorporated into a widely used AT& T Bell Laboratories software package for calculating various characteristics of system availability. Dr. Baxter also extended several classic theorems of reliability theory for discrete structures to continuous structures, using functions that he named continuum structure functions." The article does not list any particularly impressive acolades but it does say that he was an editor of several journals and other publications: that he "conceived of and was Editor-in-Chief of ''Stochastic Modeling'', a series of books published by Chapman and Hall of London from 1993 to the present". Other journals where he was an editor that are listed in that article are: ''Applied Probability Newsletter'', ''Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics'', ''Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications'', ''Naval Research Logistics'', and ''International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management''."   does mention journal editorships as valid contributing factors towards satisfying criterion 1 of  (item 3 in Notes and Examples). According to thishttp://appliedprob.society.informs.org/aps/news/apn18_1.txt, there was a one-day memorial conference in his honor at Stony Brook in 1997. Together with the two memorial articles and a lecture series named after him, I think this does pass , albeit weakly
— User:Nsk92, 00:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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