Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoaib Zaidi
Like WikiDan61, I'd like to see a stronger statement from the nom. Having declined a speedy does not make one involved and INVOLVED does not apply to participation in an AFD anyway. Now to the real issue at hand. Above, some arguments in favor of notability are made, under  and under . I don't think either one is correct. It is argued that the subject meets ACADEMIC #6, but as clarified by WikiDan61, dean is not a "highest level elected or appointed position at a major academic institution". The GScholar profile is not an in-depth discussion of the subject and therefore does not contribute to notability under GNG. It could conceivably lead to meeting ACADEMIC #1 by showing that the subject is a highly-cited (and hence highly influential) researcher. However, I don't think this is the case. The profile list three highly-cited articles, but on these papers Zaidi is only a very minor author among a large number. Even counting those papers, his total number of citations is 750 with an h-index of 9. This is far below what we usually take as indicating notability in AfD discussions. Finally, there is the article in ''Dawn''. It is not really ''about'' Zaidi, but about the education program of his university. Even if we accept this as an in-depth source ''about'' Zaidi, we only have one, so I don't think that this meets GNG either
— User:Randykitty, 10:03, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ACADEMIC||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)