Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Professor Dr. Sospeter Muhongo


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. JForget 01:30, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Professor Dr. Sospeter Muhongo

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Declined A7 nominee. Currently fails WP:BIO, and comments on the talk page seem to confirm this. Seems like a big resume rather than an article to me. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:21, 7 June 2010 (UTC
 * Comment - A Professor should be notable, however the page is a mess and needs clearing up. Codf1977 (talk) 10:12, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under CSD G11, as the "article" is purely promotional. SchuminWeb is right to say it is more of a resume than an article. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as above comment. The guy may be notable but article would have to be retitled without "Professor Dr" and rewritten from scratch.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 13:49, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete as unreferenced BLP, and nn bio. I'm not sure it is blatant promotion.  Promotion kind of implies that you might leave the page with a favorable impression, and that pile of text definitely doesn't do that. Syrthiss (talk) 12:10, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, but that is because it a is poor attempt at promotion, not because promotion is not its aim. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems clear to me that there is some self-promotion going on somewhere here, but it's not obvious to me that there's any self-promotional intent in our article itself. It could merely be attempting to document in an unbiased way the self-promotion that the subject has performed in his academic circles. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:56, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete as an unreferenced BLP Jusdafax  16:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. GregJackP (talk) 17:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Non-notable person. I searched Google and Google News for refs, found nothing but blogs and promotional pages, absolutely nothing on Google News. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 17:50, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. This comment seems bizarre to me, as I had no difficulty locating several news stories about him on Google news archive (mostly ones such as this about his failed candidacy to be the head of UNESCO). —David Eppstein (talk) 02:17, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. As editor-in-chief of the Journal of African Earth Sciences he passes WP:PROF #8. Several of the claims on his article are verifiable and seem to indicate passes of WP:PROF #2, #3, and #6. His failed candidacy for Director General of UNESCO may be enough for WP:GNG (though it may not, as WP:POLITICIAN usually considers failed candidates to be insufficiently notable). The article needs a lot of work but AfD is not cleanup. And the long list of titles carries a whiff of self-promotion (as Syrthiss hints) but we should be basing our decisions on what can actually be documented about him not on our opinions of his style. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * In which case, we should probably speedy delete the subject's resume and clear the way for a well-written, well-sourced, neutral article. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:09, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
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