Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mircea Popescu (2nd nomination)

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:24, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

Mircea Popescu

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Fails WP:GNG. No WP:SIGCOV of this individual that I could find. The article relies on a single reference. GhostOfNoMan 06:40, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. GhostOfNoMan 06:40, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
• Keep. What a surprise, another Topcipher/SwisterTwister/Trampton substub. These are bad and in need of cleanup but almost always based on underlying notability, and WP:DINC. In this case, IEEE Fellow is an automatic pass of WP:PROF#C3, the exact case that is used as an example of what passes in WP:PROF. The record is confused by the 2021 death of someone with the same name, supposedly a billionaire bitcoin holder, but I have not yet been able to determine whether there is any connection other than in name and I have no opinion whether the bitcoin Popescu is also notable. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:23, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Engineering, Finland, Hungary, Romania, England, and Scotland. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:59, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
• Keep; As others have said, he meets WP:PROF#C3 (by being an IEEE fellow which is an autopass) and so is notable. If you don’t trust the source in the article (a facebook post), this is the table of fellows of the IEEE. Select “P” and go to page 30, he is at the top of the page. Or go to the year of 2015 and select “P”, he is mentioned there. Emily.Owl ( she/her • talk) 11:45, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
• Keep, adding another vote. A very obvious pass based upon the IEEE Fellow election. Ldm1954 (talk) 13:54, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
• Keep, as he passes WP:PROF#C3 due to his IEEE fellowship. --hroest 19:41, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
• Keep, as this looks to be a mundane WP:PROF#C3 pass. Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 19:22, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. Despite the many keeps, I do not see how being a fellow of IEEE with no other significant coverage meets general notability requirements. Speaking as a fellow of another world renowned body, I think C3 is not met by the IEEE fellowship alone. Coldupnorth (talk) 18:10, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

  1. C3 specifically states that Fellow of IEEE is a pass. If you think it should not be then you could post at WT:NPROF to see if you get a consensus to change the policy.

  Ldm1954 (talk) 18:19, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

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