Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Jacob Oduor


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The result was   delete. NW ( Talk ) 21:19, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Jacob Oduor

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Non-notable person. Fails criteria of WP:BIO and WP:ACADEMIC. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, nonnotable lecturer. NawlinWiki (talk) 17:42, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, no indication that he meets WP:N. ~YellowFives 19:45, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable lecturer, minor publications. (I'm beginning to think that any article title containing "Dr." in the title, instead of just the person's name, is automatically a red flag for insignificance.) --MelanieN (talk) 01:16, 2 December 2009 (UTC)MelanieN
 * Comment. I know it's easy to make that assumption, but please try to avoid it. In some cultures it is considered impolite not to use the honorific (in fact, in Germany, it's not unknown for people with two doctorates to be referred to as "Dr. Dr."), so we shouldn't assume that the inclusion of a title is puffery. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:46, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Question. Some very eminent people have multiple (maybe dozens of) honorary degrees. How do the Germans deal with that? Xxanthippe (talk) 06:53, 4 December 2009 (UTC).
 * Comment. I'm sure many of us have made the same observation as MelanieN. Although only anecdotal at this point, I suspect that a more systematic study would show some level of correlation. I get that "cultural differences" may explain some of this, but I think it could also be true in many cases that article-creators are vaguely aware of notability requirements (hence the window-dressing of the title), but aren't yet experienced enough to realize that this is not itself sufficient. This particular article seems to have been created by the subject himself, who has only been editing WP for less than a week. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 16:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC).


 * Delete Not notable at all. --Bsadowski1 04:06, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 06:24, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. No notability to be found. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC).
 * Delete. The wide net of Google Scholar returns 0 hits. Entirely non-notable. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 16:30, 4 December 2009 (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.