Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvey Flaumenhaft

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. dbenbenn | talk 22:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Harvey Flaumenhaft

I don't think this meets customary Wikipedian standards for notability for biographies. Entire page content is "Dean of St. John's College, Annapolis MD. Frequently lectures on the Conics of Apollonius. Notorious for delivering lectures in multiple parts. See also St. John's College." Wikipedia is not RateMyProfessors.com. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:43, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • He's only notable for teaching lectures in multiple parts. Delete Radiant! 23:58, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep passes our published standard for biography on wikipedia as he is above an average professor being dean of a college. although this bio is crap at the moment.  ALKIVAR™ 05:50, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • The "professor test" is "an alternative that has been proposed." Clearly someone less notable than the average professor should not be included, but I don't think anyone ever meant to suggest that Wikipedia should include biographies of about half the professors in the United States. Or even all the Deans. Dpbsmith (talk) 11:46, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep and Cleanup. Has written a book The Effective Republic. Capitalistroadster 06:51, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, it'll grow. Wyss 11:45, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I wonder what proportion of professors are more notable than average. It depends on the skewness the distribution. For example, if the vast majority of them are non-notable, but there are a few extremely notable ones to raise the average, then the proportion will be quite small. Kappa 13:40, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • (I wondered whether anyone would bring that up...) Dpbsmith (talk) 18:43, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • No evidence presented that he exceeds the recommended criteria for inclusion of biographies. (Holding the administrative position of Dean is insufficient evidence that he passes the "average professor" test. Publishing a single book which as an Amazon sales ranking of 1,599,470 is also insufficient.) Unless further evidence can be found, delete. Rossami (talk) 14:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Notability not established. I don't think the "average professor" test is meant to be taken literally and to require that we have articles on half the professors. The vast majority of them aren't notable, their pretensions otherwise notwithstanding. --BM 17:02, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 05:39, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Absolutely nothing notable here. Gamaliel 07:36, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 00:58, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. See criteria for inclusion of biographies. --Pjacobi 00:53, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

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