Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donovan Courville


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The result was delete. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:28, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Donovan Courville

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Completely unknown pseudoacademic. See WP:PROF and WP:BLPFRINGE. Failed these tests. jps (talk) 20:04, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Per Nom, fails BLPFRINGE and PROF. (How has this lasted so long) -Roxy, the dog. barcus 20:15, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I prefer a chronology where this was deleted back in 2005 but I'm not going to write a book about it and publish it myself. --DanielRigal (talk) 20:35, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:41, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:41, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete - I can find a few mentions him being an associate professor of biochemistry in his brother's 1967 obituary, his wife's 1980 obituary, and his 1996 obituary {so BLP wouldn't apply), but nothing that appears to meet WP:PROF. --tronvillain (talk) 20:44, 8 August 2018 (UTC).
 * Keep Work has been published by respectable organisations 80.111.16.75 (talk) 08:54, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete-Per Roxy. &#x222F; WBG converse 10:53, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - while he was a real academic, he appears to have been quite run of the mill and had no lasting, major contributions to his field of study. Bearian (talk) 19:30, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete a man who had a respectable academic career teaching biology, then followed what I would characterize as less as FRINGE,than as an old-fashioned, faith-based path that has been trodden by Christians of scholarly inclination for centuries, attempting to use literary and archaeological evidence - for Egypt in this case - to prove that the Exodus really happened. People who do that can be notable (cf. bishop Ussher,) but Courville's book did not make much of an impact.  We could probably support a Category:Academics who have published FRINGE theories (just joking,)  but see recent discussions on Talk:Alan Sabrosky, or Linus Pauling as examples.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:06, 10 August 2018 (UTC)


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