Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Olawoye Theo Ladapo


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The result was Delete. Of course professors are not automatically notable, in that case we could do away with WP:PROF... Notability could not be established. Randykitty (talk) 15:49, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Olawoye Theo Ladapo

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After reading the article and using the references provided as a guide, I am not convinced that it meets WP:ACADEMIC. Darreg (talk) 01:40, 1 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions.Darreg (talk) 01:49, 1 August 2014 (UTC)


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Strong keep : Article passed the professor test. Professors are generally notable based on existing WP:Consensus Wikicology (talk) 12:41, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I do not know this Professor, but I have worked in a Nigerian university, although a long time ago, and I do understand the system somewhat. I think we need to be cautious on this one. The article needs work as do related articles. For example I just added the university where he is a Professor and then discovered that it it is not listed in the disambiguation page Federal University of Technology, so I did that too. Within Nigeria he might well be one of the top professors. He probably spends more time on important national committees that does an average US professor and he will certainly not have the massive research group that leads to a massive number of publications, but he could be notable. The article needs more work, before we can really tell. If he was a US or European professor that work would be done quickly. With a Nigerian it will take time. I am a weak keep for now. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  21:30, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Why would you say such a thing? You know from recent AfD experience that professors are not generally notable. They are notable if they pass one or more criteria in WP:PROF. -- 101.117.110.137 (talk) 10:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I searched for Professors in WP:Consensus. but I found nothing. Can you kindly provide a link that states that an academic professor is automatically notable? If you can do that I will gladly change my vote to KEEP as soon as I can find a reliable source in the article that shows that he is indeed a professor. Darreg (talk) 12:52, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Delete: fails WP:ACADEMIC--Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:19, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: : why not direct this question to when he quoted that “ Professors are deemed automatically notable ”? @ Afd/Charles Ayo! Nevertheless criteria 5 of WP:ACADEMIC answered your question. Which clearly stipulated that a subject meet WP:ACADEMIC if “  The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research (or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon). Am not soo convinced that you read WP:ACADEMIC before your comment above because if you did, you would have came accross criteria 5 that answered your question. Please kindly go through WP:ACADEMIC for verification and clearification.

I expected an experienced editor like you to state how the professor failed WP:ACADEMIC. Rather than just saying “ he failed WP:ACADEMIC ” like you did here. When did he published his first journal? How many citations has he gathered? And state its h-index. To validate your statement above.Wikicology (talk) 23:01, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The citations given doesn't prove anything. before we even talk about the reliability of the sources, the sources are links to publications of the subject. That alone is "self published" flag. Even if those sources can be used (in which they can't be), they didn't focus on the Subject....they can't establish the notability of the subject. Google didn't bring out anything significant, just the scientific file sharing sites that you used as references. The plain fact is, the subject of this article isn't notable. Don't burden yourself trying to keep it, cos it'd still get deleted anyway. This article fails WP:GNG, the most basic criteria. So, no point in even moving to check for WP:Academic.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:24, 2 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails WP:PROF, with an h-index of just 3. I have removed the claim that the subject was a Fellow of the British Institute of Biomedical Sciences, which was not confirmed by the ibms.org website. His role as Department Head is not enough for WP:PROF, nor is his role on local journals enough for WP:PROF. Given the subject's long career, it remains possible that local Nigerian news coverage brings subject over the line for WP:GNG or WP:PROF, although I can't find such coverage with Google. For searching purposes, be aware that "Olawoye" is the surname (an apparent error by the article creator). -- 101.117.110.137 (talk) 10:31, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: per above delete votes. Darreg (talk) 11:32, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
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