Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob L. Mey

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Peter Karlsen (talk) 04:02, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jacob L. Mey

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Bio of non-notable academic Orange Mike | Talk 08:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep This article is problematic as it has been created by someone with likely COI issues. However Mey has a respectable publication history and his credentials can be checked on University websites. I find his book 'Pragmatics: an introduction' cited by 829 publications on Google Scholar. Considering the article was created yesterday, I would suggest there is every reason to expect the criteria of WP:Notability (academics) to be satisfied in the near future. Fæ (talk) 11:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Regarding a possible claim to notability under WP:PROF, criterion 8, would come from the subject having been chief editor of the Journal of Pragmatics. I'm uncertain how to rate that, not being familiar with linguistics as a discipline. However, I note that the journal has an impact factor of 0.798, giving it a rank of 41 out of 93 indexed linguistics journals in the Journal Citation Reports. The open source SciImago ranking [1] ranks it 43rd out of 258 indexed journals. It's been around since 1977. What say we? Does that count as "major, well-established journal" in the area? I'm hesitant to apply personal judgments, coming as I do from another field, here. Ray^Talk 16:54, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Top GS cites 929, 110, 42,40.... with h index= 13 good for WP:Prof#C1 plus editorships. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]
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8 Nov 2010 Jacob L Mey is also the editor of RASK: international Journal of Language and communication. Jacob L. Mey had a chair of linguistics at Odense University. He published with John Benjamins, Mouton De Gruyter, Blackwell-Wiley. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.56.177.117 (talk) 14:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:PROF. He was Professor Emeritus or professor at several major academic institutions. Bearian (talk) 22:13, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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