Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denis Rancourt


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) &mdash; neuro(talk) 00:49, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Denis Rancourt

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 * Delete. Has this article been deleted before and then remade?  I don't know how to find out... But anyway, I don't see how this is a noteworthy guy, even if he was talked about in the offbeat section of a bunch of local papers.  TastyCakes (talk) 17:26, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment deletion log here. In every article's edit history page there's a tiny link at the top saying "view logs for this page" - click that and it's all there. Totnesmartin (talk) 20:53, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice, thanks a lot. The article was speedy deleted and that was then overturned after this conversation: Deletion_review/Log/2008_September_10.  TastyCakes (talk) 21:00, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep- His references section does show that he's been covered in various 3rd party sources, but at the moment, I can't look at those particular pages to verify whether the coverage is enough for him to pass the notability standards. Umbralcorax (talk) 17:45, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - It looks like he is a darling of the tabloid rags, but though the article give undue weight to his activism work. Overall, what I found at Google News suggests notability, though some of the articles are in French and Spanish.  Burzmali (talk) 20:08, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - To the commenters claiming Rancourt is only listed in Tabloids, Ottawa Citizen is the largest newspaper in Canada's capital. Also, the stories run about Rancourt in the paper have been fairly major. Rancourt has also been covered on CBC (Canada's largest News network http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2006/11/27/activism.html#skip300x250) and on the US news outlet Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06092007.html .... Don't see why Rancourt would be seen as 'not noteworthy'
 * Keep - Rancourt has been covered by Canada's largest national newspaper, The Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070514.wxlanarchist14/BNStory/lifeWork/home). He was also mentioned by Senator Inhofe in a Senate floor speech (http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=de6a54bf-802a-23ad-45ed-60ae6f3febe2). The Rancourt case has also recently come under a rare review from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (http://www.thefulcrum.ca/news/laboratory-lockout,-caut-review-rancourt), which is very noteworthy in that it will assess a number of important questions pertaining to academic freedom within universities. Afonseca (talk) 22:41, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —John Z (talk) 20:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. A Google Scholar search, after removal of false positives, does not yield enough citations for him to pass WP:PROF. On the other hand, the independent news coverage of his anarchist activism does seem to indicate enough notability under WP:BIO.--Eric Yurken (talk) 00:08, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, you wrote this while I was concluding the opposite -- which do you think are false positives? The ones I looked at were all at the University of Ottawa. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:15, 20 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. The news sources listed above appear sufficient, taken together, to satisfy WP:BIO. He also appears to be considered an expert on environmental issues, per: Additionally, I believe his physics work might well meet WP:PROF. A Google Scholar search finds one paper on which he is first author with 164 citations, & many others with respectable citations. His physics research could do with being mentioned in the article. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2008 (UTC)


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