Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benon Basheka

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 19:33, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Benon Basheka

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Non notable academic (as per poor sourcing provided currently), promo. Most probably a COI issue too. Tame (talk) 18:30, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:10, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Uganda-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:10, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. He was a vice-chancellor, so may meet WP:NACADEMIC #6. The question is whether the Uganda Technology and Management University counts as a major institution. I suspect not. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I think Kabele University where he is now is on a level to give the vice chancelor default notability, but he is not the vice chancellor there, only the 1st deputy vice chancellor. The place he actually was vice chancellor does not seem to be on the level to give academic heads default notability. In the past too often we have seen a VCship, or in the US a president/chancellor/whatever else the head of a university or college is called, and assumed passing academic notability #6 without any further investigation. A few of the cases that seem to be largely being kept on this ground involve heads of high schools or even sub-high school level institutions that later evolved into a tertiary educational institution. Actually I have never seen any of those cases go to AfD, so I am not sure what would happen if they did, and we have so many low quality, low source articles from the 2000s, that even over a decade after that period of time ended we have not even tried to fix some of the problems created by the mass influx of low quality articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:26, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree with the previous comment -- had he been v-c of Kabele University he'd be notable. But he isn't, and there's no further evidence of notability. We have indeedexpanded the meaning of criterion 6 very far--but I'm not sure where the cutoff should be. It has to be wider than research university, because presidency of many very important colleges is surely notability , but where in the "college" spectrum to stop does not seem easy to specify. DGG ( talk ) 02:32, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- A lot of presidents of universities could pass on GNG alone. For example on first review it appears there are enough articles about Scott Scarborough who was president of the University of Akron to show him notable on that. I would also argue that most presidents of say elite Liberal Arts Colleges in the US are notable. I am not sure any head of any of say the 22 California State University campuses are going to be notable. With the heads of community colleges I think we should always just go for GNG verification, and probably the same for junior colleges. On places that are not seen as top ranked research universities, Eastern Michigan University is one I know well, having done course work for a master's in history there. We have List of presidents of Eastern Michigan University. Hmm, actually it is listed as being a "public resaerch university". It was clearly not such until the second half of the 20th-century though. They only have a master's program in history, but I believe they do have Ph.D. programs in sciences and some humanities. We do have articles like Charles McKenny which is sourced to 1-an Ypsilanti Daily Press article and 2-the Eastern Michigan University papers on McKenny. Hmm, I created that article in November 2010 when I was taking a class on local history at Eastern Michigan University and working on Eastern Michigan University in World War I, so I was examining the various articles on the campus at that time. Looking back I am less than convinced that McKenny is notable, even though he was head of 3 different places that are now universities (he earlier lead what is now Central Michigan University and what is now the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all three were essentially teacher training colleges at the time, I think they may have only really been giving 2 years of training).John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:01, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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