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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 23:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gary Kimura[edit]

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Associate professor, no sources to indicate how he meets WP:NACADEMIC. Presumably he's mentioned in the cited book about NTFS, but that alone would not suffice for WP:GNG. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:37, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:42, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:42, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom, fails GNG and NACADEMIC. Hrodvarsson (talk) 04:26, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment He's not just "mentioned" in the cited book; it describes his work in depth and gives some background biographical data as well. I'd !vote "keep" if there were another comparable source, but most of the Google Books previews are only in snippet form, so they're hard to evaluate. XOR'easter (talk) 15:24, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Small GS cites for super high cited field; WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:40, 14 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]
• Comment He's not an associate professor, but an affiliate associate professor. It looks to me like "affiliate" should be read as "respected adjunct", which argues against WP:NPROF. The NTFS stuff looks interesting, and a Google books search indicates that Kimura is mentioned on 28 pages of the cited book. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 11:03, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think "affiliate" means "don't bother trying to apply WP:PROF one way or the other, since he works in industry and has a nominal connection to academia". XOR'easter (talk) 17:04, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I see sources for his role in Windows OS design. Are they enough, or is that that his only claim to fame? I would tend to say they aren't enough and that the OS work is his only claim to fame. The professor position is a "courtesy" gig, similar to a visiting position. Departments give these out when they can get professionals form the field to come and teach. the position is for 12 months, is not tenure-track reviewed and carries no benefits. As it says here, " In 1999 Gary returned to the University as an affiliate professor teaching the operating system design classes." (Everyone working in the department is going to love that arrangement as they have someone who actually designed an operating system teaching the class, and more importantly, the other faculty are released from teaching that class and can do their research!) As to Kimura's actual position, research is not implied or mentioned in the position. Since NPROF is all about research, it should not be considered here. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:46, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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