Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tor A. Benjaminsen

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The result was keep. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:59, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tor A. Benjaminsen

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Subject does not appear to qualify for an article per WP:ACADEMIC, a search for sources produces several of his publications but no in depth discussion of the subject per se. Does not appear to meet our WP:BLP policy requirements. A loose necktie (talk) 12:15, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Phil Bridger (talk) 12:31, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I note that Google Scholar lists over 7000 citations to his work, with an h-index of 42 and many papers with three-figure citation counts. I don't know how normal these figures are for this field. Phil Bridger (talk) 12:34, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:38, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The citation numbers mentioned by Phil above are high enough for a WP:NPROF crit. 1 pass under most circumstances, and I don't see any indications that human geography is the sort of very high-citation field where they would be inadequate. There's also the possibility of notability via other criteria (for instance, he seems to have coäuthored several well-reviewed books, so WP:NAUTHOR is a consideration). Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:03, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 12:45, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, Keep, in addition to his excellent citation rate, I suspect his professorship is of equivalent status in Norway to a named professorship in the US. Elemimele (talk) 20:13, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.