Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ilan Amit

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Jovanmilic97 (talk) 20:45, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Ilan Amit

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A Google search reveals very little about him, with the only non-trivial coverage the Haaretz article about him after his death (cited as two different references for some reason in the Wikipedia article). A review of his work does not suggest that he made significant contributions to mathematics (Google Scholar and JSTOR have nothing on him). Therefore fails WP:BASIC, WP:ANYBIO, WP:GNG, and WP:NACADEMIC. — MarkH21 (talk) 03:30, 25 February 2019 (UTC) — MarkH21 (talk) 03:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. — MarkH21 (talk) 03:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. — MarkH21 (talk) 03:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. — MarkH21 (talk) 03:42, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

• Comment: Amit left academia and spent his career in the defence and intelligence sector, where contributions are seldom published. Granted English-language Google results are scarce, but a forward by Agi Mishol, aulogies by Uzi Arad, Yadin Dudai, etc. suggest notability as a senior advisor to Israel's defence establishment. Kyuko (talk) 04:12, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

But if so, I imagine one could find sources that allow him to pass WP:BASIC? — MarkH21 (talk) 04:56, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

• Keep Author of 3 books, life and career of some note. Solid sources that show notability.--Geewhiz (talk) 07:02, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Writing 3 books in itself is not sufficient for notability, the body of works must satisfy WP:AUTHOR. Right now there is only one independent reliable source with significant coverage of him. If there are more that can be found and added, then the subject should qualify by WP:BASIC though. — MarkH21 (talk) 07:41, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:29, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

• Keep ! Ilan Amit is a well known Israeli figure, there is a documentary film about him, there are notable and reasonable sources about him (ten good sources in major media outlets and academic ones). Tzahy (talk) 18:56, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

That would be great then! Could you link them for verifiability? — MarkH21 (talk) 22:41, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

• Comment I just noticed that Kyuko (talk · contribs) has added a few more sources. All of them are passing mentions (i.e. trivial coverage) of the subject but there are two sources verifying the existence of some kind of documentary film about him. My impression is that this is probably a reliable independent source, but I cannot fully evaluate it. If so, then the subject is presumably notable by WP:BASIC / WP:GNG because of the Haaretz article + this film. — MarkH21 (talk) 23:04, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
• Keep. full length feature Obit in Haaretz (which they also translated to English) - [1]. In-depth coverage (Hebrew) in the 80s - [2]. Review of one of his books - [3]. And I think there's quite a bit more - finding digitized Hebrew stuff is not so easy for the period. Icewhiz (talk) 17:25, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
• Keep per sources found during AfD.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:23, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

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