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The result was Keep, consensus is that he does meet the relevant notability guidelines. Davewild (talk) 18:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Bergan[edit]

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Article has been tagged with notability issues for some time and fails to assert notability per WP:N. Tag to speedily delete was removed. Mh29255 (talk) 19:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep seems notable under WP:PROF though the article is in awful shape. JJL (talk) 21:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. —Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:43, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete article fails to cite sources and the guy fails WP:PROF. GJ (talk) 23:20, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Clearly notable both an an engineer and as an academic. Professor of a major institute at Berkeley. But has anyone checked for copyvio? Sounds very much like a press release. DGG (talk) 22:16, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• comment I bet the sentence that says "Dr. Bergan also has a grand daughter, Kelsey Bergan, who has acieved a celebrity status through the social utility network facebook." isn't copy vio... but does suggest some COI problems. Pete.Hurd (talk) 17:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Paragraph 4 of the article is lifted from here, but otherwise I can't find any evidence on-line that the article is a copyvio. The article creator User:Ird306, has made edits to Weigh in motion promoting the International Road Dynamics Inc products (IRD is Bergan & Son's company). I think this is all done in good faith, but in ignorance of WP policies. Looking over some of the links Ird306 posted at Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Social_sciences#People ([1], [2], [3], [4]) I can see how a case for notability might be made. Pete.Hurd (talk) 02:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• keep Pete.Hurd (talk) 07:17, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. He would seem to qualify as a significant figure under WP:PROF and while I am not totally happy with the referencing, a google research reveals that verifiable references are there. SorryGuy  Talk  07:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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