Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Thompson (academic)

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. - Philippe 03:32, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Thompson (academic)

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Associate professor at a small non-research college. Can't find sources, reliable or otherwise, for anything that would pass WP:PROF under either Robert or Bob Thompson. He doesn't even seem to have a bio/CV on the Arcadia University website. Jfire (talk) 18:56, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete He may or may not be notable but with such a common name the lack of references in the article makes this impossible to determine. "Robert Thompson" is a very common name and, of course, searches of GoogleScholar, GoogleBooks, etc, produce a complete soup, even after filtering. It is correct that the Arcadia University departmental web page [1] contains no specific info about him. Unless more specific identifying details or more references are provided in the article, it should be deleted. Moreover, much of the info in the current version of the article is both unverifiable and trivial. E.g. the fact that he is known as "Dr Bob" or that he coaches the Model United Nations team. Nsk92 (talk) 20:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Creator and main contributor appears to be a WP:SPA. Combined with the lack of references this suggests this guy probably isn't notable. ~ mazca talk 21:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete appears to be nn Avalon (talk) 06:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. (by Prosfilaes) —David Eppstein (talk) 00:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.