Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Varol Akman

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 no consensus. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 15:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Varol Akman

Blatant vanity article of non-notable academic. Created by User:Akman and is almost identical to his user page, and identical to since-reverted changes he made to Template:Philosopher-stub. Prod was attempted, but removed by anonymous editor along with autobiography and potential-vanity templates so beginning AfD Wingsandsword 22:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom.--SweetNeo85 22:07, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The publications mentioned in his list, as well as those displayed by doing a search at http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Varol+Akman , together with the accomplishments listed in the article, probably add up to notability. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 23:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Note however, that the main source for the accomplishments listed in the article are the subject's own contributions to Wikipedia (his edit to Template:Philosopher-stub at [1]) and his own curriculum vitae and web page, makes it a textbook WP:AUTO case. While he does list his accomplishments, they do seem like those of a typical active professor, who would publish papers and perform work throughout their career, and is relatively non-notable compared to other professors in his field (you could write a similar biography of pretty much any career professor listing published papers, fields of interest, and minor awards won). Listing major accomplishments, major awards won, widely cited papers, or other highly notable accomplishments from outside sources might make this notable, but if the subject himself couldn't bring himself to list things like that (since autobiographies do have the strong tendancy to be self-aggrandizing), it doesn't seem likely that they would exist. --Wingsandsword 00:11, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Alvin6226 ^talk 23:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• No opinion. I would say that the statements regarding his role inn setting up a new program and promoting analytic philosophy in Turkish academia add up to a credible claim of notability. But absent third-party sources it does not seem clear that he meets Wikipedia:Academics. -- Visviva 13:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per TruthbringerToronto. He's got 20,000+ Google hits (more than 22,000 for the name, but some a few are for other guys. That's a whomping good number for a Turkish academic. And Notre Dame thinks he's good enough to publish his writing [2], and it looks like lots of other academic journals do too. VivianDarkbloom 19:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep About 60 pubs and sam no conference procs plus other stuff. And if the philosophy in Turkey claims are verifiable that would seem to confirm notability. Dlyons493 Talk 01:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep — per TruthbringerToronto. Dionyseus 07:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not enough verified info to prove notability.--Runcorn 19:53, 24 August 2006 (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.