The result was delete. Sam Walton ( talk) 15:08, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Hugely drummed-up biography of an obscure professor at Oral Roberts University. The article has an impressive-looking list of no less than 18 sources. Upon closer examination, most of them are articles written by the subject himself, a wiki website on Open Notebook Science that he maintains, dead links (that didn't amount to much independent coverage judging from the text they are supposed to source), and a few sources on the honors this person received: giving a keynote address at Oklahoma State University and a talk given at the White House. There's also an award from a "DaVinci Institute" and a fellowship from ProjectNExT (100 awarded each year). None of this seems to indicate any notability. As for his research, the article cites his GScholar profile (in the references and in the ELs). Despite the fact that GS often overcounts citations, Lang's papers garner a paltry 246 citations for an h-index of 9. This is far removed from what we usually take as indicating notability under WP:ACADEMIC. In short, this biography seems to miss all criteria given in WP:GNG or WP:ACADEMIC. Hence: Delete. Randykitty ( talk) 13:51, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
The result was delete. Sam Walton ( talk) 15:08, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Hugely drummed-up biography of an obscure professor at Oral Roberts University. The article has an impressive-looking list of no less than 18 sources. Upon closer examination, most of them are articles written by the subject himself, a wiki website on Open Notebook Science that he maintains, dead links (that didn't amount to much independent coverage judging from the text they are supposed to source), and a few sources on the honors this person received: giving a keynote address at Oklahoma State University and a talk given at the White House. There's also an award from a "DaVinci Institute" and a fellowship from ProjectNExT (100 awarded each year). None of this seems to indicate any notability. As for his research, the article cites his GScholar profile (in the references and in the ELs). Despite the fact that GS often overcounts citations, Lang's papers garner a paltry 246 citations for an h-index of 9. This is far removed from what we usually take as indicating notability under WP:ACADEMIC. In short, this biography seems to miss all criteria given in WP:GNG or WP:ACADEMIC. Hence: Delete. Randykitty ( talk) 13:51, 26 September 2016 (UTC)