Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mircea Badut

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The result was delete. joe decker ^talk 00:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mircea Badut

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There's a slight problem here: no independent sources. We have entries from the publishing houses that have put out this individual's work ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]), a sale page from a computer repair firm ([7]), a couple of Google Books entries for his books ([8], [9]) and a couple of search results, which are never sources ([10], [11]). "Significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject"? Not so much. - Biruitorul ^Talk 03:37, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:55, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions. Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:36, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The only plausible case for notability is through his books, but being a prolific author isn't enough by itself. We don't have any independent and reliably published reviews of the books, and worldcat shows them (at least the ones I checked) to be held only by low single-digit numbers of libraries. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:18, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, does not appear to pass either WP:PROF or WP:AUTHOR. His engineering/informatics work seems to have almost no citability, and, as DE notes, there do not seem to be any published reviews of his fiction books, and the library holdings for those books are sparse. Nsk92 (talk) 13:23, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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