Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas McElwain (3rd nomination)


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The result was   delete. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 04:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Thomas McElwain
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Article was re-created after deletion from previous AfD. Reasons for deletions from previous time holds true again. Person appears to be a non-notable docent. Has published some articles, but I can't find much. Says he is at the University of Stockholm. He is not listed when I searched on the Univ. site, but some published articles had him there in the past. Bgwhite (talk) 07:10, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete and salt. No notability apparent. Xxanthippe (talk) 08:26, 17 March 2011 (UTC).
 * 'Speedy delete G4 and salt. This article is not the same as the one that was deleted, but rather is significantly worse. And as the deleted version said, his docent position is "a largely honorary position with few or no teaching duties," so if holding that position is the best that can be said for him it's not much. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:10, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Apparent claim to notability in article is that "He is well-known for his conversion from Christianity to Shi'a Islam." However, Google News Archive search for Thomas McElwain Islam OR muslim gives only one hit, and even that isn't significant coverage. I found no reviews of his book "Islam in the Bible" on either GNews Archive or GScholar, so he doesn't appear to meet WP:AUTHOR. I'm no expert on our WP:salting policy but note that this article hasn't been repeatedly recreated following deletion as the first deletion discussion resulted in 'Keep'. Qwfp (talk) 08:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete and salt. repeatedly recreated without improvement.  Subject just isn't notable RadioFan (talk) 21:05, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete and Salt No indication of notability. Edward321 (talk) 23:51, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
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