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The result was keep. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:39, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not sure the subject passes WP:NPROF based upon being a dean at a school of business; others may disagree. The subject certainly fails WP:ANYBIO and WP:GNG. Judging the cites present, work she published doesn't lend to her own notability. Cites from universities where she worked are not independent and therefore don't count for notability though they are fine for verifiability. A BEFORE search showed me non-independent pieces like DenverPost, WSJ, and 9news where she was quoted/ interviewed. Even then, those pieces are not about her in any depth. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:00, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Women, and Colorado. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:00, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Matusik is the Edward F. Frey Dean of Business, which is a named appointment at a major academic institution (University of Michigan). Therefore she meets criteria #5 of WP:PROF. I argue she also meets criteria #1 (significant impact in her scholarly discipline) as she has an h-index of 17, and her top four publications are highly cited (1634, 499, 375, 303, 294 citations as of August 2022). DaffodilOcean (talk) 20:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep via WP:NPROF C1 and C5. "Weak", because citation levels in the subject's field are fairly high, and I'd like to see less of a gap between the highest cited and next highest cited paper; also because named positions appear to be more common in business schools than elsewhere. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 21:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per WP:PROF#C1 but not C5. "Edward F. Frey Dean of Business" sounds like the sort of named chair given ex officio to administrators as a way to give them a slush fund, rather than the sort of named chair C5 describes, given to scholars for their high-level scholarly accomplishments. Whether an administrator position is named or not, it should be covered under C6, the only criterion about academic administration, and dean is too low-level an administrator to pass C6. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:09, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Agreed regarding Deans. Now if a dean also held a named professorship... Thinking I might make a proposal to formalize this at WP:Prof. What do you think? Jahaza (talk) 05:00, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  The issue is how to distinguish named professorships given to deans for being deans from named professorships given to deans for their personal scholarly accomplishments. Only the personal ones should count for #C5. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:44, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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