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The result was delete. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:59, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Meisam Tabatabaei[edit]

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This academic does not meet the notability criteria Stone (talk) 09:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete --Stone (talk) 10:19, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:39, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless sources in Farsi (or some other language) can be produced to establish notability. What is available in European languages via searches above is certainly not sufficient. Most "awards" are for things he did as a student. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 13:09, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I beleive he is truely notable, I searched the local sources and it was realy fantastic.Genius6936 (talk) 16:05, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Such a recent PhD would need to have produced some extraordinary work to have achieved notability as an academic. No claim has been made of such work. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep He has defenitely achieved notability at least regionally. The claims made obviously prove that. Times11 (talk) 16:06, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete, per above. PhD seems to be 2008. Academics are almost never notable at such an early career stage and there does not seem to be evidence that this one is an exception. Kinoq (talk) 22:26, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep His winning of the PECIPTA award makes him notable. If someone could search newspapers in his native language, you'd surely find more mention of him. Google Scholar search shows some of his scholarly work he published, but I'm not one that is able to judge that. Googling for the award's name gives a rather large number of results. Narrowing it down to only search for educational websites, .edu used by colleges and whatnot, [1] shows promising results, it mentioned there. If you win a notable award, that makes you a notable person. Dream Focus 10:09, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

International Exposition of Research and Invention of Institutions of Higher Learning is a award for students, people doing a good PhD should not be part of an encyclopedy. If the award would be a science award also for senior scientists hand he won it it might qualify him to be notable but up to now he is not notable.--Stone (talk) 15:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Keep To agree with Dream Focus I think he is notable enough and the page must be rescued ASAP. Rockrock123 (talk) 15:42, 12 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

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Delete. To add to Stone's point that this is a student award – it's not even a very prestigious one. PECIPTA appears to be essentially a college-level science fair and the competition rules, section 4 in particular, indicate that entries scoring 60 to 69 points out of 100 win a "bronze medal" – 69% is an "F" in many academic venues, so it may be that most entries win at least bronze in this exhibition. All the other listed awards are student awards (not notable for our purposes) that mostly cannot even be independently verified, e.g. "Top Student of Tarbiat Modarres University", "Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), University Top Student", etc. WoS shows an h-index of 0 (being careful not to count false-positives from an established researcher having a similar name: Mohammad Tabatabaei), which is consistent with someone who just graduated last year. The article was created by a WP:SPA "S edvards" and may be nothing more than a vanity page. Uncontroversial delete. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 17:04, 12 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]
Delete on arguments above. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:07, 14 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]
Keep on arguments listed above. He has clearly been very bright and successful with lots of awards in a short period and that makes him notable. talk212 (talk) 05:07, 14 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

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