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Delete A worthy individual doing a good job but not encyclopaedia material. (Had he played a couple of games of football professionally, might be another story...) Peridon (talk) 16:13, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep pending further evidence. How thorough a search for sources was done WP:BEFORE this nomination? We judge not by whether there are references in the article, but by whether sources exist somewhere. He was a "senior advisor" to the government, then a full professor and department chair. Usually this is the result of a career of scholarship , publication, and distinguished service, and not a random happening. Perhaps someone in his field could evaluate his results at Google Scholar :[1] and Google books: [2]. See [3] which seems to demonstrate notability" member of numerous academic advisory councils and boards" etc. Edison (talk) 17:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep, there is now a source to his time with Dalhousie University and an award he won. The source is from the university, however, so it isn't completely independent. J04n(talk page)22:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete The sources in the various Gsearches confirm that he existed and did some decent work in academic administration, but the Gscholar h-index is 7 over a full career, which suggests that he's not more notable than the average professor. RayTalk19:07, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. He seems to have been more active as an administrator and consultant than as a researcher, but not at a high enough level to establish notability that way. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:19, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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