Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hannah Cotton


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The result was   keep. Courcelles 01:47, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Hannah Cotton

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Educator with no evidence of notability. Battleaxe9872 Talk 23:19, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - University department head = notable. This is a poorly written stub, obviously. Carrite (talk) 02:02, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Not according to WP:PROF. The threshold there is that head of a whole university = notable, everything lower needs additional justification. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:11, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete As the sole ref states, she is but a faculty member within The Institute of Arts and Letters, Faculty of Humanities at the university. She does not seem to fulfil any of the criteria within WP:PROF. She does not hold a chair or Prof Emeritus, and the closest she comes, as head of a department, still appears to fall some way short of "held a major highest-level elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution". Ohconfucius  ¡digame! 04:32, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. Emeritus is not a high distinction; it basically just means "retired professor". —David Eppstein (talk) 04:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. GS cites give h index of 9. Probably good for a little cited field so may pass WP:Prof #1. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:24, 3 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Keep: I think she meets WP:Prof 5 The person holds or has held a named chair appointment at a major institution of higher education and research. Here http://www.huji.ac.il/dataj/controller/ihoker/MOP-STAFF_LINK?sno=9660&Save_t= it says she is/was
 * Hannah M. Cotton-Paltiel, Shalom Horowitz Professor of Classics
 * which seems to be a named chair and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a major HE institution. (Msrasnw (talk) 19:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC))


 * Keep Per Msrasnw and WP:PROF. She may also pass #C8 as editor of a journal, I'm not sure (I tried searching for verification that she was editor-in-chief but came up short, and I don't know how significant the journal is). —David Eppstein (talk) 23:01, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed). Has at least one book, Rome, the Greek world, and the East, currently in more than 500 major libraries worldwide according to WorldCat. Also, has another book in more than 400.--Eric Yurken (talk) 01:11, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Endowed chair and lots of publications. Seems like it easily satisfies WP:PROF  Vartanza (talk) 07:01, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
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