Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laurence Barton


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:36, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Laurence Barton

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Specious claim to notability through leadership of a small correspondence school. No real substantiation of notability through WP:GNG or WP:PROF, as all references are either not reliable sources or mere tangential coverage of Laurence Barton.GrapedApe (talk) 05:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete for utter lack of WP:RS to substantiate notability, WP:GNG. Qworty (talk) 08:48, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment This page appears to have been created by an SPA and the subject is not especially notable. However, the links: Fox, Bloomberg and CNN are reliable and the link content seems relevant.  Am I missing something here? Kooky2 (talk) 11:22, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jenks24 (talk) 12:15, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

 
 * Comment The first two resources seem reliable enough to me. I can't understand what makes the subject more or less notable than any other university president.  The American College is much more than a "small correspondence school" as noted above.  It was founded by the the creator of life insurance and continues to certify thousands of life underwriters per year.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skids20 (talk • contribs) 01:49, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It's remarkable that Solomon S. Huebner (1882-1964) was "creator of life insurance", especially considering that the ancient Romans were using it and life insurance policies were being sold in the USA as early as the 1760s.(See Life insurance).--GrapedApe (talk) 02:13, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment This seems like an unproductive "discussion" now. I originally added this article because the page already existed and I found it via the list of Boston College people page.  He was also included on the List of leaders of universities and colleges in the United States page, where I noticed that many other leaders and presidents had pages with articles already written.   I was then told it may be a conflict of interest for me to have written this article because I work as a librarian for The American College.  I understand and respect this policy.  But if the sources and links that I have provided are not credible enough, and no one else is going to work to improve it, then I would like to see the page deleted. jhw46 (talk) 20:45, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:16, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak delete. I don't think distance learning facilities are the sort of "major academic institution" WP:PROF was intended to cover, so to be notable for this position I'd prefer to see in-depth coverage in third-party reliable sources of the type described by WP:GNG. But I didn't find much; there seems to have been some minor press coverage of his 1994 book "The Enemy in the Workplace" but that's all I found, and it wasn't enough to convince me. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:00, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
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