Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Mycroft

Fellow academic (apparently in the UK a "reader" is akin to an assistant professor) with Arthur Norman, whose biggest claim to fame is apparently co-leading a project to create an obscure CPU (jcn processor -journal -"corporate news network" -"JCN newswire" gets less than 500 hits, and many are about other topics)--this is the main creation the article mentions--and university compiler (norcroft -minnesota -guest -equestrian -summit, -palmerston gets only 2500 hits, many of which are still about other topics) "Alan Mycroft" only gets about 2000 hits, half of which are about somebody else. (If the article is deleted, the links to it should be removed to reduce the chance of it reappearing.) Niteowlneils 02:58, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It's not the quantity of hits that matters, it's the quality. Some of the weblinks are news articles naming him as one of the signatories to the petition to the EU parliament protesting the patenting of algorithms. In terms of research publications, he doesn't appear to be in the top 1% in his field judged by the ISI highly cited threshold (79 papers over 10 years in computer science) as his research papers list only has about 30 in that period judging by a quick scan. He does appear to do a fair chunk of teaching, judging from the google hits. Not sure that lecturing, even at a top university, is encyclopaedic though. I'm currently leaning towards delete.
Delete, unless explained why he is notable. I checked Citeseer, a search engine that indexes online papers in computer science and it returned 197 citations [1]. This means that he does not make Citeseer's list of 10,000 most cited computer scientists. So, based on article and citation statistics, he would not be notable. If there is some other reason why he is notable, please, tell me. Unimportant remark: UK "reader" corresponds to US associate professor. US assistant professor would be UK "lecturer". Andris 20:56, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
Delete - Tεx τ urε 21:59, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:21, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)