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The result was speedy keep. For WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) Captain Galaxy (talk) 16:18, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Written like a resume and very little references James Richards (talk) 16:19, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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- Keep. He appears to pass WP:PROF#C1 (three publications with over 100 cites in Google Scholar), #C3 (member of a bluelinked national academy), #C5 (the named professorship), and WP:AUTHOR (I found five published reviews of his three books Turkish in Macedonia and beyond, Macedonian, and The Grammatical Categories of the Macedonian Indicative on JSTOR and likely more exist elsewhere). Any one of these would be enough. Nomination shows no evidence of WP:BEFORE nor consideration of WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:25, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per reasons described above. Doremo (talk) 17:31, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Passes WP:AUTHOR and multiple criteria of WP:PROF (at least C3 and C5, and almost certainly C1 as well), any one of which would suffice. Being "written like a resume" would be grounds for editing, not deletion, and it isn't currently so bad in that regard — more drab than anything else. XOR'easter (talk) 19:20, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I think drab is a desirable quality for an academic BLP. Better that than the flamboyance of, for example, Dan Reinstein; see its edit history. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:41, 13 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]
- Wow, yeah, that page is a garbage heap of peacock feathers. XOR'easter (talk) 23:23, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I sometimes try to restrain it but I wilt under the barrage of COI. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]
- I'd report it to WP:COIN, but it seems more a candidate for a "prose disasters" noticeboard, if we had one. XOR'easter (talk) 23:46, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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