Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barry Brown (attorney)


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The result was no consensus defaulting to keep and w/o prejudice to a future renomination. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:48, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Barry Brown (attorney)

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BLP:1E person is not notable except for connection with closing a college. HouseOfChange (talk) 16:00, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
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 * Merge with Mount Ida College. All of Brown's coverage has been solely due to his role in the closing of Mt. Ida College, and this should probably warrant either a merge or redirect. Gilded Snail (talk) 19:35, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment; I became aware of this via WikiProject Deletion sorting/Law from my interest in law-related articles. From that aspect, I don't see notability of an attorney. However, it looks like to the extent there is a claim of notability, it's not actually as an attorney, but as an academic: president of Mount Ida College and interim president of Suffolk University. I don't really dabble in notability of academics, but it would look like he may meet WP:NACADEMIC criterion no. 6 -- The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society. -- depending on whether Mount Ida College is considered a "major academic institution" and whether an "interim president" is considered a "highest-level ... appointed administrative post".
 * I'm not going to take a Keep/Delete position, since, as I said, I don't usually enter into discussions of notability of academics. I'm just throwing that out there. TJRC (talk) 20:00, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: This is the bio of PRESIDENT of a college, who CLOSED IT DOWN!! How common is that??? Yet it is not on the academic sort list. Plus if students were left stranded, there must be more media coverage. NB the page views. Johnbod (talk) 20:57, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * Keep  per WP:ACADEMIC#6 as the president of Mount Ida College.Thsmi002 (talk) 17:34, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Quoting WP:ACADEMIC#6: "The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society." Mt. Ida does not rise to the level of "major." HouseOfChange (talk) 19:55, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd have to agree with that. But actually arranginmg to close your college down is highly unusual, and notable. I'm sure somone who can be bothered to research (not me, or anyone here) can find sufficient coverage for gng. Johnbod (talk) 21:49, 5 March 2019 (UTC)


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