On 10/17/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/17/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Why are people seriously suggesting that we're doing it in such numbers that nobody need even give a reason any more? That's utterly bonkers.
Time use of course it would be fairly trival to create with {{agree}} (argee with nominator) so if comments were really required it wouldn't do any good.
The nominator in this case gave no reason except that he found this fellow boring and believed him to be non-notable. The former was very believable but obviously isn't a serious criterion for deletion. The latter would surely require some kind of rationale.
Here we have a professor who has worked in Canada and Netherlands (not one of these merkin professors who are apparently not so senior) and a published author. We have a deletion precedent that (non-vanity) published authors are notable, and another that professors who have published books rather than just papers are notable, so the non-notability claim was, to put it mildly, somewhat implausible.