Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey A. Hart


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The result was   keep.  MBisanz  talk 12:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Jeffrey A. Hart

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Auto bio-graphical article created by the person itself :. He has confirmed this here also that he indeed is the subject. Has WP:COI issues and also fails WP:N and WP:PROFESSOR. --  Tinu  Cherian  - 12:38, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 17:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:32, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Whether or not this is an autobio is immaterial. IF there are COI issues, the solution is to improve the article, not to delete it (but the article sounds pretty neutral to me). Before !voting, I'd like to see more evidence that this person is not notable. For instance, according to his personal web page, he served as Chair of his department in the past. One of his books, The Politics of International Economic Relations, is in its 7th (!!) edition. All this plainly reeks of notability, so convince me! --Crusio (talk) 18:05, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * keep clearly notable, books are well cited, on prior presidential commission, etc. etc. can we stop nominating because of coi, it isn't a reason.  --Buridan (talk) 18:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * keep, agree with Buridan. Dealing with COI takes some work, so much easier simply to press the AFD button. There is no difficulty with WP:PROF for this one -- quite the contrary. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 21:25, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly passes WP:PROF: major grants, major academic positions at research universities, and major publications (several pubs have been cited over 100 times, according to Google Scholar).  WP:COI is reason for a complete rewrite, but is not grounds for deletion of an article on a notable subject.  RJC  TalkContribs 21:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I wish all faculty (and others) who do autobio or bio articles would do them this well; the information required in the right presentation, and clear notability--might be a model to show to people in the academic professions who don't do as good a job--which they are equally likely to do wrong by either saying too much or too little. DGG (talk) 00:04, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It's snowing. Obvious keep per all of the above. --Crusio (talk) 00:08, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs improvement and additional sources, but seeing that most of his bibliography is published by major international publishers -- in and of itself sufficient to establish notability -- there's bound to be a review or two, if not online than in an applicable printed journal. And I haven't even got to WP:PROF considerations. 23skidoo (talk) 02:20, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * keep Meets WP:PROF. JoshuaZ (talk) 02:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Quoted/cited to the nth degree. I'll skip the citations thrown up by a look in Google, as others have already covered this. I don't see how he fails WP:N. The WP:PROFESSOR page linked says:
 * "The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity." - Check. (Professor of Pol. Sci., impacted high def. television/electronic commerce field enough to have views considered in consultations &amp; major papers, inc. governmental).
 * "The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources." Check.
 * "The most typical way of satisfying Criterion 1 is to show that the academic ... author of highly cited academic work." Check.
 * "For the purposes of partially satisfying Criterion 1... 2), highly selective fellowships (other than postdoctoral fellowships). Check? Aren't Paul Henri Spaak Fellowship in U.S-European Relations, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and National Science Foundation selective enough?
 * "12. Criterion 4 may be satisfied ... if the person has authored several books ... widely used as textbooks (or as a basis for a course) at multiple institutions of higher ed." Check.
 * Linked from WP:COI is guideline WP:AUTOBIO. (Similar is FAQ/Business). "Writing autobiographies is discouraged because it is difficult to write a neutral, verifiable autobio..." etc. There's nothing saying you mustn't, or that it should be deleted. WP:COI just recommends you take extra care when doing so, and accept you cannot exert authority over it, should it change in a way you dislike. The article is fine. Whitehorse1 10:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


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