Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Hecht

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The result was keep. John254 00:41, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Michael Hecht

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Complete (self-?)aggrandizement, but even if not so, insufficient notability. Delete. --Nlu (talk) 11:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Really lousy article, almost beyond belief--it didnt even say where he is a professor!. As it happens, it's in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State, a good research university--he has previously been full professor at Arizona State. [1] He is editor or coauthor of 7 books, textbooks mainly, but that's enough, I've added them. He;s also run a major project. I trimmed the article to some semblance of reason, but the original is in the history and is worth looking at. See the rest of his contributions here at Drug Resistance Strategies Project -- I've fixed it a little also. I recognize the temptation to throw the nonsense out altogether but its the subject who might still be notable. DGG (talk) 20:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm confused. Are you arguing that Wikipedia should a) hire him, b) host a resume for him, or c) write an article about him? 152.3.247.43 (talk) 20:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I am, of course, arguing that WP should have an article about him, saying the existing one needed much improvement, expressing my willingness to improve it,--and saying I had started doing so, as I try to do when the subject is notable and the needed improvements obvious. I just did a little more. I come to afd to help get rid of the junk, which is most of it -- and help improve what can be, which includes this one DGG (talk) 00:03, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

• Keep after DGG's significant edits. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 15:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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.