Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alhassan Mohammed Gani

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The result was keep. Spartaz ^Humbug! 15:18, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Alhassan Mohammed Gani

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A vice-chancellor of a university that doesn't seem to have a Wikipedia page. What's stated in the article doesn't seem to meet WP:NPROF. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:27, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:28, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:28, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The university deserves a Wikipedia page, if this article can be written better I'll vote keep. HandsomeBoy (talk) 13:53, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. In many countries based on the English system, the vice chancellor is the actual head of a university; the chancellor is a ceremonial position. People who hold vice chancellor positions at major universities in those countries pass WP:PROF#C6. Do we have any information about whether Nigeria is one of those countries and about how major Federal University, Kashere is? —David Eppstein (talk) 16:26, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@David Eppstein: Oh yeah, I forgot about that; I'm from a country where university chancellors are not ceremonial but actual executive roles, so I forgot that that was the case in Commonwealth countries. Since Nigeria is a former British colony, I presume that they probably took inspiration from the British education system, but just to be sure we may need to leave a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nigeria for clarification. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 23:21, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5 and David Eppstein:"Vice chancellor" is the chief executive and academic officer of University here while "Chancellor" is ceremonial/titular role given to traditional rulers. In addition, generally all vice chancellors (of public versites, at least) are seasoned professors with long record ( what is called full professor in U.S.). –Ammarpad (talk) 20:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to the university (if and when an article is created). This is one of many articles on Nigerian academics created by an inexperienced user in poor English and with poor references (and a possible COI). I don't necessarily think the subject is not notable but the article definitely isn't ready for the encyclopedia. Deb (talk) 10:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Deb:. They are being created in poorly-managed edit-a-thon. –Ammarpad (talk) 20:15, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While I agree with the non about the sate of the article, this person clearly passes WP:PROF#C6. Also per WP:NEXIST, poor stat of the article doesn't mean he is not notabele.–Ammarpad (talk) 20:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

But the article has to make a statement of notability, which is where this one is lacking. His notability is reliant on his academic position, but the notability of his workplace is still at issue. If you're prepared to work on the article to bring it up to standard, we can put it into Draft space.Deb (talk) 07:25, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It needs to be mentioned that it is not worth singling out this article. Most of the articles listed at Category:Nigerian academic administrators and Category:Nigerian academics were created at that editathon. The status of most of those articles is similar and therefore you could possibly find out the organisers and arrange for mass improvement of those articles. It seems that Princebenj (talk · contribs) (also the creator of the mentioned article) could have been one of the organisers. I would therefore insist you to take the critical issues up with him, especially because he is still continuing to create similar articles. I am just another volunteer who is trying to help. Diptanshu 💬 04:49, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - While monitoring new pages, I have come across a shower of articles on Nigerian academics, possibly created as a part of an editathon. It seems that the articles come under WP:NPROF and therefore can be retained. Diptanshu 💬 18:10, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I agree with Diptanshu 💬 above.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:22, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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