Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Roush

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The result was keep. BD2412 T 01:30, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Roush[edit]

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WP:MILL administrator of non-notable college communications school. Subject fails WP:ACADEMIC as well as WP:ANYBIO. 5 and 6 of WP:ACADEMIC refer to "major academic institutions" and the Quinnipiac communications school fails to meet that category. The notable Quinnipiac Poll is unaffiliated with the communications school, which itself is not notable is only mentioned twice and in passing in Quinnipiac University, one of those times to describe how it shares a building with the engineering school. The article was created by a block-evading sockpuppet, is thinly sourced, lacks adequate sourcing independent of the subject such as to establish notability, and appears largely self-written based on the article history and preexisting tag. Coretheapple (talk) 15:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Coretheapple (talk) 14:28, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I agree that dean (at Quinnipiac or elsewhere) is not enough for academic notability on its own, and his citation record looks nothing special. But his former title, Walter E. Hussman, Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at the University of North Carolina, is a pass of WP:PROF#C5. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:18, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- As for the "block-evading sockpuppet" who created this article: they were a very prolific contributor of very-low-quality sub-stubs on people who were mostly clearly notable. This article looks exactly like this: initially a one-line stub saying that he held the distinguished professor title. It has been significantly expanded since. A bigger issue are the WP:AUTOBIO edits in 2019 by someone with the same name as the subject, but I think there have been enough other contributors to the article to keep any promotionalism at bay. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:55, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Holding a distinguished professorship at any point at a major university is considered an automatic NPROF pass. JoelleJay (talk) 16:45, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:NPROF. Current title notwithstanding (likewise, the relative lack of notability of current workplace), his resume makes it make sense. Keep.
Keep: Passes WP:NPROF as a distinguished professor at a significant university. Curbon7 (talk) 19:49, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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