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
[edit]Successful arguments on non-notability
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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."
- 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."
People on the margins of Academia, amateur researchers or authors etc.
- 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.