Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Hamernick

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:15, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Hamernick[edit]

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There are/have been thousands and thousands of university department chairs. There is no indication that Hamernick has any notabiliy beyond that. Reywas92^Talk 21:42, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:35, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. The subject does not appear to meet any of the criteria at WP:ACADEMIC. WWGB (talk) 22:46, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Professor who also chaired and expanded an academic department for years, according to sources. Keep. Scanlan (talk) 17:46, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Being a professor or chairing a department are specifically mentioned in WP:ACADEMIC as not being sufficient for notability. --Crusio (talk) 18:51, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The two cited sources are so textually similar that they should really only count as one, neither gives any indication of anything he did that might be of non-local significance, and I can't find any evidence elsewhere in Google scholar or Google news archive for passing WP:PROF or WP:GNG. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:25, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Somebody apparently wrote this in response to his recent death, and both sources are obituaries. In fact they are special-interest obituaries; no independent reliable source seems to have published one. I'm sure he was a fine person, but he does not meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability. The department-chair position is not enough, and Google Scholar finds almost nothing. --MelanieN (talk) 16:47, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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