Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nayef Al-Rodhan
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The result was delete. Star Mississippi 20:55, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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There is no substantive RS coverage of the subject. The subject does not appear to meet the criteria for
WP:REFSPAMming to promote the subject across Wikipedia. Thenightaway (talk) 23:18, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Politics, Medicine, and Saudi Arabia. Skynxnex (talk) 02:52, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:41, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- Delete fails WP:AUTHOR. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:57, 11 June 2023 (UTC)]
- Keep - Did you check Scholar before nominating? he's well cited in both philosophy and neuroscience so he meets WP:NAUTHOR for his book "Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space" which appears to have several reviews. - car chasm (talk) 15:41, 13 June 2023 (UTC)]
- These are not significant citation counts given that Al-Rodhan has spammed his publications into the lead of a vast number of Wikipedia articles where they remained for more than a decade. For example, his most-cited work, "Definitions of globalization: A comprehensive overview and a proposed definition" is a self-published manuscript that he WP:CITOGENESIS where the academic places his non-notable research prominently into Wikipedia articles, academics find it on Wikipedia and lazily cite it for basic terms, and the citations themselves become an indication that the subject is actually notable. As for the reviews of his book, I could only find one in Space Policy, which says "this is a somewhat curious book: it claims to look at space power in a new way, but doesn't clearly produce any new insights".[2] Thenightaway (talk) 16:17, 13 June 2023 (UTC)]
- These are not significant citation counts given that Al-Rodhan has spammed his publications into the lead of a vast number of Wikipedia articles where they remained for more than a decade. For example, his most-cited work, "Definitions of globalization: A comprehensive overview and a proposed definition" is a self-published manuscript that he
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 00:33, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
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