Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Herbert Schendl


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The result was no consensus.  Sandstein  06:20, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Herbert Schendl

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BLP written with clear conflict of interest, over positive, sources are mostly primary (own webpage, CV, symposium webpage, university course information!) Non-notable academic. Polyamorph (talk) 20:03, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Nat965 (talk) 23:33, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Austria-related deletion discussions. Nat965 (talk) 23:33, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment. See also Articles for deletion/Nikolaus Ritt, Articles for deletion/Stefan Dollinger, Articles for deletion/Herbert Koziol. A clear attempt by the user with a COI to promote themselves with vanity pages and/or their PhD supervisors. See also Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard. Polyamorph (talk) 06:36, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:38, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Cnilep (talk) 03:34, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Leaning keep per WP:PROF#6 "held a highest-level... post at a major academic institution". According to the University of Vienna, he was Chair of the department of English and American Studies, and the Fakultätsvorsitzender of the Humanities faculty. Also, this review of Code-Switching in Early English calls Schendel and co-author Laura Wright "without doubt among the foremost researchers in the field". The article needs improvement in terms of sourcing and tone, but AfD is not for cleanup. Cnilep (talk) 03:50, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Department chair is definitely not enough for #6. That criterion is about people who are the head of an entire university. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * In the US or Japan (countries where I happen to have served) department chair is definitely not sufficient, as it is merely an administrative role. In Germany, however, it is my understanding that department chair is an honorary position for a senior scholar. I'm not sure about Austria, and I don't actually know what a Fakultätsvorsitzender is (my dictionary suggests "faculty board head"), so by all means take my recommendation with requisite grains of salt. Cnilep (talk) 03:20, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Szzuk (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets several different criteria ofWP:PROF. As the basic one, thee are sufficient high level publication to show him an authority in his subject. 2, he appears to hold a personal chair at a major university, 3rd, and definitive, a festscrift has been published about his work at this retirement--thats one of the short-=cut indications, and seeing it in the article should have been sufficient reason to not make this nomination.  DGG ( talk ) 07:27, 2 May 2018 (UTC)


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