Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Danieley

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The result was Keep (NAC) RMHED (talk) 21:38, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

James Danieley[edit]

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Fails WP:ACADEMIC. Speedy declined saying "he was a university president". However his contribution to academic research appears to be zero. No results on google scholar or google. His professorship then seems to fail WP:ACADEMIC. This leaves his presidency of the college, but again we don't have significant coverage in reliable sources. --Pontificalibus (talk) 10:47, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —John Z (talk) 11:15, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Made the New York Times twice [1] -- once for becoming Elon president, but also for becoming Chairman for Lay Life and Work of the United Church of Christ - a major denomination. (which someone ought to enter into the article, to be sure). Mentioned numerous times elsewhere [2] (notable photographer with multiple event photos of Danieley), [3] book stating his work at Elon ("Transforming" is the term used) oncluding integration of Elon etc. Notability established clearly. By the way, college presidents do not generally contribute to journals -- his notability comes from deeds and not from research. Collect (talk) 11:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete presidency is of only a very minor institution. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:11, 14 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

This seems very helpful —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.33.66.65 (talk) 17:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, passes criterion 6 of WP:ACADEMIC: "The person has held a major highest-level elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution or major academic society." Nyttend (talk) 18:30, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. Does appear to pass criterion 6 of WP:PROF, as a former President of Elon College. Kinoq (talk) 21:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment "Very minor"? See [4] Rankings by major groups and journals. USN&WR ranking alone means it is not a "minor institution." And, of course, a major position in one of the primary Protestant groups in the US. Collect (talk) 08:44, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:12, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Being the president of a respected college for 16 years is enough to satisfy WP:PROF. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Clear and obvious keep as college president. Misuse of Google, in searching for careers before the late 1990s. And even then, GNews archive gave the NYT results. DGG ( talk ) 05:56, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, speedy close. Clearly meets both tests 5 and 6 of WP:PROF, as well as the GNG. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 17:42, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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