Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Randall (2nd nomination)

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The result was delete. --Coredesat 04:16, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Randall

Mike Randall (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

No improvement since last nomination, no sources, but some potential to merge with the university he is the president of. Jason Harvestdancer | Talk to me 19:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - No doubt he's a nice, pious and helpful guy but no apparent notability to speak of. --WebHamster 20:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
• edit-conflict Delete - I can find minimal indications of notability; a search for his name and the school he presides over turned up very little. The article has been sitting without references for quite some time, as mentioned, and it doesn't really make a good case for notability. If someone turns up sources to change my mind, I'll be glad to change my opinion. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd 21:12, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep President of a university is notable. His school is the Baptist Bible College (Springfield, Missouri), a fully accredited school which boasts Jerry Falwell as alumnus. He edits two denominational magazines. I think that this justifies an article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs)

  Comment Some of us might not feel that's anything to boast about.  ;) - Nascentatheist 04:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, despite previous unsigned comment, Wikipedia:Notability (academics) says nothing about the president of a university being notable. I could easily write up an article on my college's president, but that wouldn't be any different. The article provides no sources of anything and no claims that he fulfills any of the academic notability provisions. Nyttend 00:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per lack of notability. If the position of president at a university is important enough, it is safe to say that reliable sources would've provided coverage Corpx 03:44, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Wikipedia:Notability (academics), though I was a bit torn on this one. There seem to be some fairly loose interpretations of "notable" at Wikipedia and at an encyclopedia at which every major league baseball player is notable presumably by membership in that fraternity, regardless of apparent contribution, and every university is notable whether it is a real university or not (and even whether it actually exists or not), it seems to me that a president of a university, even a small university (that happens to also hold regional accreditation) should be notable by the holding of that position. I'm sure there are fewer presidents of accredited universities than there are major league baseball players, but I've never done the math. ;) However, the standard does include several reasonable bullets and Randall doesn't seem to meet them. No notability established by those standards, no academic publication record of any merit, let alone that expected of academics, and no independent, verifiable sources to support notability - Nascentatheist 04:00, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable bio. Keb25 13:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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