Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcella Runell Hall

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marcella Runell Hall

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I suggest taking a look at the history of this page. I put a bunch of effort into trying to clear this up, but the amount of peacock editing and bullshit is just irreparable. Claiming to have founded things she's not credited for, lots of self-published sources, lots of awards by organisations she's connected to.

I've already removed the more offensive examples, but I actually think this article is unsaveably promotional and when you take it all away, I don't think there's anything left. For what it's worth, it's noted on the user page of the user who wrote the article that Hall asked them to write the article in the first place.

I've spent the last 30 minutes looking through mounds of shit for sigcov and I'm not seeing it. If anyone thinks there's something there, be my guest. BrigadierG (talk) 23:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Women, and New York. BrigadierG (talk) 23:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Does not appear to pass WP:NACADEMIC standards. Her highest rank is dean of students, not even dean of a university school or college, so she doesn’t fulfill the highest-level elected or appointed administrative post; she does not have a significant impact in her scholarly discipline per independent reliable sources; she has no highly prestigious academic awards or honors at a national or international level; she has not been elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association; her work, such that it is, does not affect a substantial number of academic institutions; she does not hold a named chair appointment or distinguished professorship; she has no substantial impact outside academia; and she is not an editor of a major, well-established academic journal. As an “author”, she has not written, but edited, books that do not meet WP:BKCRIT criteria. Of course there is a WP:CONFLICT situation. Quaerens-veritatem (talk)
Delete: The above commenters have said it in detail I don't need to repeat. In a college full of notable people (as it happens, my wife got her graduate degree at MHC last year, and we live just across the river), the subject doesn't make much of a mark. Ravenswing 04:36, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Neither her citation counts (even when I bring in the ones under the name Marcella Runell) nor her administrative position are high enough for WP:PROF. I was hoping she might pass through WP:AUTHOR, but although I found one coauthored book [1] and three coedited volumes [2] [3] [4], I failed to find any published reviews of these, needed for that kind of notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:39, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I did find something (googleScholar), but WP:TNT seems to be the best option. Idunnox3 (talk) 23:10, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.