Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sharon Inkelas

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 keep. Looking at WP:PROF, Samir and Iridescenti note that department chair of a major university is a claim under criterion 1. David Epstein's !vote and contribution makes a claim under 2, and perhaps 3 and 4 as well. Ling.Nut, visiting from our friends at the Linguistics WikiProject, seems to make a claim under 4, and perhaps 2. While any one of these claims might be marginal, in combination this is a firm keep. - Banyan Tree 06:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sharon Inkelas

I removed the speedy deletion notice on this professor and chair of linguistics at Berkeley. Being chair of a department at a major university meets WP:PROF in my eyes, but I'm bringing it to AfD as a contested speedy -- Samir 16:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Could be covered by A7 but because its contested it is more appropriate to bring it here, I cannot see any references so it fails Wikipedia:Verifiability.The Sunshine Man 16:59, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as chair of a major department at a major university. The laundry lists could probably safely go (and seem to have been cut-and-pasted from her entry on the Berkeley website), but going by Google, she seems to have enough important specialist publications (no mainstream media mentions - unsurprising for something this specialised - but cited by MIT, Cambridge, Stanford etc); IMO passes WP:PROF under criteria 1 — iridescenti (talk to me!) 17:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep It's an interesting question how many works to list. For scientists, I check a citation index--either Web of Science or Scopus, and include the most highly cited. This doesn't work well in other fields. But 7 publications seems a reasonable number, and the faculty web site is a reasonable place to get them. "Dissertations approved" is a borderline category-- one puts it on CVs, and it does establish ones stature to have actually supervised other scholars, but they are not usually listed here. I have replaced them with a general statement. "Courses taught" is almost always superfluous. This is of interest within the university only , except in really special cases, such as Feynman's introductory physics course at Caltech. I've removed these as well. DGG 04:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd 17:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Being a department chair doesn't seem sufficient to satisfy WP:PROF. Supervising PhD dissertations seems like it's just part of the job. I don't see anything else here that establishes any significant level of notability. fbb_fan 15:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I was going to say weak keep on the basis of being full professor and chair at Berkeley, which isn't really a strong argument for notability but is at least a clear pass for the "average professor test". But I'm upping my !vote after finding a review of her book with Zoll that called it "extremely important" (added to the article). I also added a sentence about her musical skills; while that doesn't really strengthen the case for her academic notability, at least it adds some color to her article which makes it seem more worth saving to me. —David Eppstein 07:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Few linguists are going to be more notable than a full professor at Berkeley. I think it would be great to solicit the opinion of some linguists on this nomination. --Myke Cuthbert 16:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just placed a note on Wikipedia_Talk:WikiProject Linguistics asking for expert opinions on this researcher's work. --Myke Cuthbert 05:14, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Just finished writing a term paper with Inkelas' name on every other page... Inkelas & Zoll, Morphological Doubling Theory. Try google scholar. :-) Ling.Nut 04:41, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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