Wikipedia:Notability (academics)/Precedents

This is an incomplete list of previous debates on VfD/AfD related to people active as academic teachers and researchers. It is mostly a list of results from 2005-2006. The list Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Academics_and_educators is now used to organize current AfDs of academics and the history of that page or the archive at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Academics_and_educators/archive can give a sense of arguments now being used for and against deletion.

Successful arguments on notability

• notable for chairing a conference discussion: Francys Johnson AfD
• notable for being well-known within a country: Dragan_Marušič AfD Zeynep Ergun AfD
• notable for being well-known within a specific field of research: Keith Donnellan AfD
• notable for receiving a notable award: Dragan_Marušič AfD
• notable for being a national academy member: Robert Hall (economist) AfD
• notable for being full prof/named prof at reputable university: Zeynep Ergun AfD Andrew D. Hamilton AfD Danny Quah AfD Drew Hyland AfD
• notable for being prof at top university: Paul Boghossian AfD Isadore Twersky AfD
• notable for being department head/laboratory head: Paul Jankowski Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Jankowski Arne Kaijser AfD Jacob Klein AfD Gary Polonsky AfD
• notable for large number of publications: Deborah McGuinness AfD Arne Kaijser AfD Marshall Poe AfD Ernst Tugendhat AfD
• notable for single high-quality publication: Eugene Lewis AfD R. J. Rummel AfD
• notable for public exposure: Bernard Cohen AfD
• notable for average-level publications: Ronald Edsforth AfD

Successful arguments on non-notability

• ordinary academic publications only not notable: Molly Jo Rose AfD A. F. Gotch AfD
• low-level/unspecified-level prof not enough: Anne Lewinson AfD Eric Bittner AfD David Collins (physics professor) AfD
• not demonstrating/claiming notability (many, many examples)
• lack of academic achievement: Eyal Tarazi AfD Beverly N. Hay AfD Brent Walters AfD
• textbook contributions not sufficient: Thomas Adams (professor) AfD (still open)

AfD debates with significant general prof-notability discussion

• Tomaz Pisanski AfD

Kept articles

• Jostein Saether Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jostein Saether listed on March 20, 2006.

• Miloš Zahradník Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miloš Zahradník listed on March 21, 2006.

• G. Patrick Maxwell Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/G. Patrick Maxwell listed on March 21, 2006.

• Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shah Mahmoud Hanifi listed on March 22, 2006.

• Joel Moses Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Moses listed 2006 April 9

• Zeynep Ergun, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zeynep Ergun, Turkish anglist

• Deborah McGuinness, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deborah McGuinness

• Andrew D. Hamilton, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew D. Hamilton, "Irénée du Pont Professor" of Chemistry at Yale, provost

• John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald, (1873-1946), American Hispanic scholar

• Katheryn K. Russell, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katheryn K. Russell - associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, College Park

• Danny Quah, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Quah - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Robert Hall (economist), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Hall (economist) - economist at Stanford with a wide variety of interests. Member of the Hoover Institute, the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow at both American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.

• Isadore Twersky, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isadore Twersky (1930–1997) - Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University.

• Arne Kaijser, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arne Kaijser - professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of Science and Technology.

• Giuseppe Tarantino, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giuseppe Tarantino - "Rector at the University of Pisa, Italy, helped introduce American and European philosophy to the Italian educational system."

• Drew Hyland, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Drew Hyland - "Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has published 6 books and over 40 journal articles.". Nomination was "There's no evidence that he's notable. Having an endowed chair doesn't equal notability."

• Marshall Poe, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marshall Poe - American historian and the author of many works on early modern Russia (Muscovy), has had positions at IAS and Harvard, but no full professorship, writer and analyst at The Atlantic Monthly in Washington, D.C..

• Phillip H. Wiebe, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phillip H. Wiebe - "Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University and its School of Graduate Studies. He is the author of God and Other Spirits and Visions of Jesus, both bestsellers from Oxford University Press."

• Jacob Klein, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Klein - "former holder of the Herman Mark Chair of Polymer Physics in the Materials and Interfaces Department at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, is the Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford." Nom: "Tagged as nn-bio (CSD A7). Whilst being a prof isn't an assertion of notability, being Head of a Laboratory possibly is. Needs massive work, but that doesn't make it a speedy."

• Tomaž Pisanski, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tomaz Pisanski - (b. 1949) "Slovenian mathematician working mainly in graph theory. [---] professor of discrete and computational mathematics at the University of Ljubljana."

• Bernard Cohen, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernard Cohen - Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Dragan Marušič, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragan Marušič

• Ronald Edsforth, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronald Edsforth - Visiting Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Published four books.

• Maris Martinsons, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martinsons, professor of management at the City University of Hong Kong and research director of the Pacific Rim Institute for the Studies of Management -- tagged as {{unreferenced}}.

• Gary Polonsky, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary Polonsky - first ever president of the new University of Ontario Institute of Technology [1]][2]. Was originally speedy-tagged but moved to AfD.

Deleted articles

• Lakhan Gusain Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakhan Gusain listed on March 21, 2006.

• Andrej Brodnik Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrej Brodnik listed on March 21, 2006.

• Wolfrum, Stefan M. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wolfrum, Stefan M. listed on March 22, 2006.

• Kristen Ghodsee Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kristen Ghodsee listed 2006 April 8 ("assistant professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College and the author of numerous articles on women in Bulgaria and the monograph, The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea.")

• Eric Bittner, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Bittner, phycisist, professor of chemistry at the University of Houston, specializing in Physical Chemistry. Degrees and birthdate, but no publications or other biographical details concerning his work mentioned in article

• Carlo Terracciano, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlo Terracciano

• Hans Boepple, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hans Boepple - music professor

• Justin Fritz Leiber, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Fritz Leiber, professor, ascientist and SF author, copyvio from http://www.hfac.uh.edu/phil/leiber/vita.htm "The result of the debate was DELETE as copyvio and no offer of a rewrite and a marginal debate here. No prejudice against rewriting this one, however."

• Vladimir Kronrod, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vladimir Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (vanity article by son, not written in encyclopedic style)

• David Collins (physics professor), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Collins (physics professor)

Some related cases

People on the margins of Academia, amateur researchers or authors etc.

• A. F. Gotch, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. F. Gotch - "a retired teacher of physical education, anatomy and biology", published (at least, but probably no more than) four books (another one is an omnibus reprint of three earlier ones in one volume). One of them (Mammals: Their Latin names explained, 1979) was given a pretty devastating review by Bryan P. Glass in The Quarterly Review of Biology 1980, p. 85. He summarizes it as a "virtually useless book". Delete. (u p p l a n d 04:53, 16 August 2005 (UTC))[reply]

• Jack Sarfatti, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Sarfatti - American physicist with respectable degrees and a few respectable publications, but kept for his notoriety in pseudoscience contexts more than based on any established position in Academia. Nomination: "AFAICR, Jack Sarfatti is an Internet troll. Anyway the article's contents are patent nonsense." See Category talk:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of JackSarfatti.

• Albrecht Fölsing, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albrecht Folsing - amateur historian and author of several historical biographies. It turns out that the nominator, Chris Hillman was deceived by a hoaxer who attributed various bizzare and apparently nonexistent books to Fölsing, an author previously unknown to Hillman. In fact, Fölsing's biography of Albert Einstein turns out to be respectable and mainstream, and the nominator no longer disputes Fölsing's existence or his notability.

• Carlos Blanco, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlos Blanco - weak as an academic, but exceptionally young, features in news media.