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Barry Saywitz

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Lack of notability/ TheLongTone (talk) 14:10, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: The creator is clearly WP:PGAMING; they made exactly 10 edits and created this page less than five days after creating their account. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 18:59, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An all too common phenomenonTheLongTone (talk) 13:26, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:GNG. From all appearances, the subject is a run of the mill real estate agent. We are not LinkedIn nor a real estate podcast. The creator has only written this article and a few minor copy edits. Bearian (talk) 18:33, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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Declined prod. Provided sources are not independent like philosophy publications or the university connected with it. Nothing in google books, 1 hit in google scholar, limited google news hits. Fails WP:ORG. LibStar (talk) 00:23, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - doesn't seem to be WP:SIGCOV, all of the mentions in news articles seem to be trivial/passing mentions Psychastes (talk) 15:23, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I actually get a number of hits in Google Books for this organization describing its role in the Continental reception and Continental/Analytic debates in the US. Jahaza (talk) 15:33, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've put in an interlibrary loan request for The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America (2019), ed. Michela Beatrice Ferri ISBN 9783319991832, which has a chapter "The Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy" (pp. 267-282) by Anthony Steinbock. Jahaza (talk) 16:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I also found a journal article doi:10.5325/jspecphil.26.2.0102. Jahaza (talk) 16:23, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Leaning Keep: Appears to be plenty of sources showing up on Google Scholar - some examples where the coverage is definitely in depth: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99185-6_16, doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226821580-011, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. There are also some papers in this issue of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy but I'm not sure if that is actually independent coverage. Shapeyness (talk) 12:26, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yaw Danso

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Ghanese footballer with spells at the NASL and USL clubs, but lacks of independent coverage. Svartner (talk) 17:03, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 18:39, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails in GNG. RossEvans19 (talk) 14:05, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Charlie Bales

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Subject appears to not have played higher than the third division of American soccer before switching to indoor soccer, and he has/had a non-notable commentating job for a collegiate men's soccer team. WP:GNG Raskuly (talk) 06:18, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 11:34, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 16:06, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete—Clearly fails WP:GNG via WP:SIGCOV and even WP:BASIC. Anwegmann (talk) 19:45, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Sheldon

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this article was previously deleted, and remade despite no further evidence of notability / meeting WP:PROF Psychastes (talk) 01:42, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The previous article, and the first nomination that led to its deletion, appears to have actually been about another Mark Sheldon; that one was about a politician (mayor), not the philosopher and professor of medicine that is the current subject. (I have no opinion on the current article.) WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:03, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete. His job title, "distinguished senior lecturer", is one that in US universities designates someone hired for teaching rather than for scholarship but who has been at it long enough to be distinguished and senior; it is not itself a sign of notability or its lack, but it is not promising. (In universities in UK-based systems it would have a completely different meaning.) I searched but was unable to find well-cited publications or multiply-reviewed books that could lead to WP:PROF#C1 or WP:AUTHOR notability. There is a different Mark A. Sheldon with a well-cited paper on semantic file systems but even that one paper wouldn't tip the scale. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:16, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
He was previously a full professor at Indiana University Northwest, however. See the bulletin here for example[1]. However that's not great either, since it's not the flagship IU campus. Jahaza (talk) 03:51, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete. The "distinguished" in "distinguished senior lecturer" is an assertion of notability (in teaching, research, or a combination of both) from a flagship institution which in my view does (and should) count towards a WP:PROF pass but in itself, without published documentation about what that distinction was, is not itself enough to pass. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 09:19, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There is simply no evidence provided for meeting any of the criteria in WP:NPROF and even upon searching academic sources I could not find any of the usual indicators of an academic passing NPROF#1, such as highly cited papers, published reviews of books or a detailed discussion of his work in context. --hroest 14:48, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think the "distinguished" position and more than 400 citations on Google Scholar count towards WP:prof. Ali Pirhayati (talk) 10:19, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Schmid

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Fails WP:PROF, nothing in google scholar for *this* eric schmid, none of the listed papers have any significant number of citations Psychastes (talk) 23:45, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. No sign whatsoever of WP:NPROF for this current PhD student. I am skeptical of WP:NCREATIVE, and the current article does not make a case for it. Commenting that several of the references in the article do not appear to mention the subject here. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:57, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'm still looking into sources in the article and a BEFORE, but it seems that what is here are a lot of name-check mentions, listings, connected non-independent sources, or brief snippet of content that are basically mentions rather than sustained in-depth significant coverage that we would normally see for a notable artist. No notable exhibitions, nor works in permanent collections of notable museums or national galleries, nor the usual art historical sources nor art critical/theoretical coverage. Holding off on !Voting for now until I do a deeper search, but it looks like he is not a notable artist or curator. Also want to mention that curators do not inherit the notability of the artists they select for shows they curate. Netherzone (talk) 21:46, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. (Someone has to cast the first !vote) -- one reason for general guidelines like WP:NPROF's statement that graduate students are very rarely notable is to help wade through mountains of side-mentions, mentions-of-groups-participated-in, etc. and all the other near citations that this article is full of and let us ask, "is there a significant reliable source that says that this person is significantly important in any of his fields?" Without it, it's WP:TOOSOON to have an article. (keep up the good work Eric...) -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 09:23, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree it is WP:TOOSOON for any criteria in WP:NPROF and likely also for WP:NARTIST since I dont see any indication that he is part of a permanent collection or even had his own solo exhibition yet. For example the Speak Local exhibition was not a solo exhibition and it doesnt look like any of the others were either. Similarly I dont see any in depth profiles that would amount to notability per WP:GNG. --hroest 14:53, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree on the comments above, especially the Too Soon comments. Not yet. Go4thProsper (talk) 23:22, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - It's WP:TOOSOON for this multidisciplinary person, they don't meet WP:NACADEMIC nor WP:NARTIST at this time. Maybe in a few years, but not now.
Delete - we almost never keep doctoral students. Bearian (talk) 09:23, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Saeid Baghvardani

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Only appears to be a record of the subject playing a single indoor game and he coached a single year of college soccer. WP:GNG Raskuly (talk) 05:26, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Fails GNG. RossEvans19 (talk) 19:50, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 00:42, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 11:28, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

International Mr. Bootblack

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In addition to only being cited with two primary sources: doing a brief search online produces no sources indicating WP:GNG, or secondary sources specifically covering the conference outside of passing mentions. My search 1 2 only produced sources of the conference as passing mentions in articles about the main organization International Mr. Leather. For these reasons, I believe the article does not pass notability guidelines, and should be redirect to International Mr. Leather instead. Johnson524 11:34, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:58, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:GNG. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 11:46, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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