Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Jacob Jaffe

So where did Wikipedia go wrong?

Jacob Jaffe, (born 1930) is a psychotherapist and a writer.[1] As noted in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-01-31/The Science Hall of Fame, Jacob Jaffe has 0.7 mD, giving him a ranking of 4794th (tied with 244 people) on the list of the most famous scientists of the past 2 centuries. The only material I could find on Jaffe is:

Reliable source material about Jaffe

1. New York Times August 17, 1986 (testified at a cop kills cop's cop wife trial)
2. Newsday December 11, 2000 ("Anything Goes. Jacob Jaffe, author of "Land of Dreams," and Michael Gray, author of "Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan," will be guests on WNYE / 91.5 FM at noon.")
3. New York Times January 9, 2005 (Jaffe knew Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)

Writings by Jaffe

1. Midstream, February 1, 2001, Volume 47; Issue 2, General Tao's Chicken.
2. Midstream, May 1, 2002, Volume 48; Issue 4, "Don't you know there's a war on?".
3. Midstream, November 1, 2006, Volume 52; Issue 6 , The second exodus.
4. Midstream, July 1, 2008, Volume 54; Issue 4, Isaac Babel and Mordche Yaffe.

That Science Hall of Fame list relied on Wikipedia ("This is where Wikipedia comes in, with its 900,000 biographical entries (the authors report 750,000), which can then be searched using for science-related categories, science-related keywords, and years of birth and death."). as well as Jaffe's ngrams chart is here. So what did Wikipedia do wrong to result in Jaffe winding up on a list of the most famous scientists of the past 2 centuries? -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

It should be noted that he ranks towards the bottom of the list. We should also consider the possibility that it was wrong to include him in the first place. No opinion on which is actually the case. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)