Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/G. Bismark Reeves

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:41, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

G. Bismark Reeves[edit]

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Ineligible for PROD due to 2008 de-PROD by article creator. I don't believe this person meets WP:NPROF. Dean of a college within a university is not a "highest-level" post. Search on Google scholar brings up zero hits for publications. Nothing but Wikipedia mirrors found elsewhere. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:55, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Academics and educators, and Africa. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:55, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Does not pass WP:GNG and I do not believe he meets any other notability requirement. IrishOsita (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete does not even come close to having enough sources. We might be able to work around this if there was any meeting of any of the multiple criteria for notability for academics, but there is not. Not every professor at every university is notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This is not a run-of-the-mill professor but former vice president of the University of Liberia, according to our article the oldest degree-granting institution in W Africa. Espresso Addict (talk) 13:37, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NPROF gives a pass to highest-level positions, but nothing for second-highest. In fact, the archived staff directory and this AllAfrica article gives his position as "Vice President for Administration", so he's not even the Vice President, he's a Vice President, making it even less relevant to a notability claim.

I couldn't find a single thing other about the guy or his work anywhere. The Mobius archive cited in the article shows exactly one publication, from 1984 ("Selected wood properties of self-straightening black walnut..."), which when searched on G Scholar brings up zero results except itself, indicating that it made little impact. In fact, according to this, it was only his PhD dissertation. I can't find any evidence that he ever after that published anything in a scholarly journal, at least not one that Google, GBooks, or WMF Library has any records of, so he doesn't meet the influential/impactful criteria of NPROF. Without that, there's nothing. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:19, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:28, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 06:20, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.