Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joel Case

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Delete --JForget 00:14, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Joel Case

Apparently non-notable chemistry professor. Prodded by Royalbroil; prod removed by page creator & sole author Jrrkulp, who has no edits beyond this page and has reinserted irrelevant material with BLP concerns. Careful Google Scholar searches have failed to uncover more than a possible one or two research papers; however, I do not have access to specialised chemistry publications databases and might have missed something. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:56, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Searched and found no notability at all, and I would have loved to. Collect (talk) 15:02, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —Espresso Addict (talk) 15:05, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No evidence of passing WP:PROF: no citability in googlescholar[1] and WebOfScience and no other information indicating possible notability given in the article or at the university website. Nsk92 (talk) 15:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – At this time. Could find no information, other than one reference in Google Scholar. Likewise, only a associate professor. If Mr. Case had tenure, than I would reconsider my opinion. Likewise, as Espresso Addict pointed out, if I missed something, just let me know. I have a special place in my heart for academics. ShoesssS ^Talk 15:21, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, he fairly likely does have tenure, based on his Associate Professor rank. But simply having tenure is far from sufficient for passing either WP:PROF or WP:BIO. Nsk92 (talk) 15:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply - I should have expressed myself differently. Full Professorship is what I should have said. ShoesssS ^Talk 15:37, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete without malice To paraphrase WP:PROF, if Dr. Case does something that would merit a Wikipedia article in its own right, then we should have an article about him. The (deleted) comment that "His prefered method of teaching is through sarcasm and bad jokes" is hardly a claim to notability among chemistry teachers, but rather a statement of common practice in the field! Physchim62 (talk) 15:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Even if he were tenured full professor, that in itself would not make him notable either. --Crusio (talk) 16:07, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply – Typically, when an individual rises to the appointment of full Prosessorship, especially at a larger university, they have meet the criteria as established at Wikipedia:Notability (academics). Man, this crowd is tough today :-). ShoesssS ^Talk 16:18, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

comment The operative word here is "typically". Yes, that's true, but not invariably. I think I know several non-notable full professors, even at major universities who are not notable. As they are friends of mine, however, I'll refrain from giving examples... :-) --Crusio (talk) 17:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. And I'm an academic chemist, so I should know ;) Chris (talk) 17:08, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Created as a borderline attack page (presumably one of his students' idea of a joke), now that the inappropriate content has been removed there's virtually nothing left. And apparently nothing to add; in addition to the databases already mentioned, Scifinder turns up nothing at all for a Joel Case or a J C Case, and none of the J Cases it finds seem to work at the University of Wisconsin. Iain99^{Balderdash and piffle} 18:09, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Indeed, created as a personal attack, and probably had the desired effect if the subject of the article and/or the class have been reading this deletion discussion. Not very good timing though - grades (and possibly finals) still to come.--Eric Yurken (talk) 01:55, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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