Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barry Sullivan (lawyer)


 * 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 keep. (non-admin closure) — Yashtalk stalk 16:29, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Barry Sullivan (lawyer)

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Appears to mainly consist of the subject's professional bio and CV/resume. Subject lacks any significant coverage in reliable secondary sources and fails both WP:GNG and WP:ACADEMIC. Brycehughes (talk) 02:59, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - I can't find anything to suggest notability. -- Scjessey (talk) 03:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Appears to hold a named chair at a major university, so passes WP:PROF. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:33, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per Necrothesp --TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:26, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  J 947  00:50, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment Just a note that the current version of the article, which seems to have been in place since 2009, appears to be very close paraphrasing from this version of his Jenner & Block profile. The first couple of versions of the entry seemed fine copyright-wise, if we want to keep and stubify. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - Easily passes WP:NACADEMIC - Dean of the School of Law at Washington and Lee University, Vice President Washington and Lee University, Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago and holder of  the Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy. Article needs major cleanup though. I'll try to take a stab at that in the next few days and add in line citations. I added a source in lead to verify academic positions.   CBS 527 Talk 13:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:PROF. However, most of the material is without secondary sources.  --David Tornheim (talk) 19:43, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:57, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Comment - I have added in-line sources and did some clean-up to the article. As User:EricEnfermero stated above, about 90 percent of the article was cut and pasted from his Jenner & Block profile. So I had to pretty much rewrite the article. CBS 527 Talk 20:52, 8 March 2017 (UTC)


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