Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin Avruch

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The result was keep. Joyous! | Talk 01:46, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Avruch

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It looks like this article does not meet notability requirements. The user who created it, @Scarwriter: (notified), declares a COI and affiliation with the university in which this professor teaches, on their page, which there is nothing wrong with. However, I'm not so sure the professor in question actually meets notability requirements. FuzzyGopher (talk) 18:21, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

At first glance it appears that the subject meets WP:PROF criterion 5 with a named chair and probably criterion 1 with 700 Google Scholar citations to his book and significant numbers to his journal papers. Let's see if we can bring in some experts on academic notability. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 18:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 18:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I agree with ip, meets WP:PROF.Smmurphy^(Talk) 02:26, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep per WP:PROF#C5, the named chair. Some named chairs are ex officio rather than given in recognition of excellence in scholarship, but that doesn't seem to be the case here: he received the named chair in 2009 and was named dean in 2013. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:28, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:PROF (named chair).--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:54, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep He holds a named chair so clearly passes academic notability criteria 5.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:43, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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