Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tony Lewis (mathematician)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Lewis (mathematician)[edit]

This discussion is a result of (what I fully admit was clumsy) addition, then withdrawal, in the Frank Duckworth AfD. In that AfD, sound arguments were, inter alia, made to Merge both articles to Duckworth-Lewis Method and to Keep both The specific notability of this article should have been tested - again, this was my fault - but it was not. Shirt58 (talk) 11:20, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. The co-inventor of the widely used Duckworth-Lewis method in cricket. The coverage in the "The Independent" and "New York Times" provides the necessary RS. Salih (talk) 14:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
keep sources establish notability. A case could be made for merger, but that would be better handled outside of AFD. Artw (talk) 18:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. While it can come across as WP:BLP1E, the fact is that he has made a lasting contribution to two forms of the game of Cricket at the international level - One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals and List A matches at the major domestic levels and therefore clearly passes the BLP1E exception "if the event is significant, and/or if the individual's role within it is substantial". Duckworth-Lewis method, the name and the usage or availability at every cricket match is significant enough to warrant the exception. -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 18:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. Unlike Duckworth I can't find anything else of note that he's done. But I think he does have enough personal fame as a result of this one thing to merit a separate article. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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