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Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because Behnke's alleged role in reformulating APA ethics policy to enable US government torture programs has been written about in multiple news sources. See for instance here, here, here and here. -- 23:31, 10 July 2015 (UTC)Wormcast (talk)
PS New York Times, today: "The association’s ethics director, Stephen Behnke, coordinated the group’s public policy statements on interrogations with a top military psychologist, the report said, and then received a Pentagon contract to help train interrogators while he was still working at the association, without the knowledge of the association’s board. Mr. Behnke did not respond to a request for comment." -- Wormcast (talk) 23:59, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Your article does not include any information that explains why he is notable and provides no sources whatsoever. It consists simply of two sentences specifying where he works/holds an appointment. GLG GLG (talk) 00:16, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
as the individual who nominated the article for speedy deletion (which, imo, was completely justified given the content of the article) it appears from reading this that Behnke is actually a very good candidate for a wikipedia article. The re-direct is one idea, although reading some of the citations that the guy who opposed deletion in the above "contested deletion" article posted, he might be worthy of his own article. The thing that I circle back to is that when you read the article as it currently exists, on its face, there is nothing about it that suggests an justifiable notability. I'm almost tempted to take a stab at it myself - but I'm not all that confident when it comes to some of the issues raised in the links that have been posted. GLG GLG (talk) 05:12, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... Mr Behnbke is a former Director of the Office of Ethics for the American Psychological Association and is involved in an ongoing controversy involving torture by the CIA and US military.
Mr Behnbke is certainly notable. See