Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sharyn clough

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. 10 delete votes to 7 keep votes. Postdlf 23:08, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Sharyn clough

She is a professor of mine at Oregon State University. She is all into feminist philosophy, philosophy of science, and some pragmatism. She's pretty cool I'd say. Delete the article as it stands; though if this VfD inspires some person or persons to improve this article on this cool prof, that's cool too. (I'll revisit the page later and may change my vote.) -- Hoary 04:35, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

• Delete. Even if the subject is notable, there's nothing in this worth saving. Quale 04:43, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's an orphan article so there is no pressing need for an article on this professor. I could put in the basics on her position at Oregon University, but it would still be an orphan article. --Randolph 04:59, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Incorrectly titled and has no useful content. While I tend to be on the inclusionist side when it comes to academics, that is for articles that have content. Also, she's an assistant professor rather than a full professor (i.e. in a post that wouldn't be called a professor in Europe). Average Earthman 08:54, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Inspired by this VfD, I've revised the article to conform to Wikipedia standards. I hope Hoary won't be offended if I respectfully say that, if my doing so inspires him to rewrite articles in the future rather than putting them up for VfD, that would be cool, too! The time it took me to google Prof Clough and rewrite the article was probably no more time than it took to put the article up for VfD. --Jacobw 15:25, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
  • PS: I haven't retitled the article to give it proper capitalization, since one isn't supposed to move articles that are up for VfD. Perhaps when the VfD concludes, if the vote is "keep", the admin can move the article to its proper place.
    • Hey, that's cool, Jacobw. Even cooler if the nitwits oh-so-biteable newbies who create "articles" such as this would do so themselves. But undergraduates write the durnedest things! If I may quote our heroine: Teaching 20 year olds every year will either keep us young, or drive us insane, or some combination of the two. -- Hoary 15:58, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
    • Comment. At the request of Jacobw, I've revisted this article and looked it over. I still find it runs close to the wire on notability. I've been looking for reviews of her publications and haven't found anything interesting. I did find a small mention of her in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[1], under the Analytic Feminism section[2]. One of her publications is listed in the bibliography and she is mentioned once in the article,

"In addition to Langton and her colleagues' work on pornography that uses philosophy of language mentioned above, other analytic work on language can be found, for example, in Hintikka and Hintikka (1983), Nye (1998), Tanesini (1994), Hornsby (2000), and Clough (2003)."

I also found some neat pics of a trip to Sweden for a International Women Philosophers convention/seminar on her home page, but that might not qualify as notability. ;) --Randolph 16:05, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: rewritten page still doesn't seem very notable. Orphan page with no inbound links (except for VfD) and only one outbound. OK, she's an associate professor and a feminist scholar. No information on what degrees she holds, whether she has won any awards, if she edits a notable journal, whether her work has been cited by other scholars, etc. Still not notable. Quale 18:52, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Rewrite fails to establish notability. RickK 23:31, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Unless extrapolated upon to include information that is usefull or interesting.
  • The above unsigned comment was from User:Collins.mc. RickK 00:21, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable professor. CDC (talk) 23:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Lots of room for expansion and organic growth. Klonimus 01:14, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Er, as opposed to inorganic growth, or what? -- Hoary 03:27, 2005 May 3 (UTC)
  • An article on virtually anyone employed by a university would have room for expansion and 'organic growth' (even myself). Average Earthman 08:47, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. She is a published professor with two books: Siblings under the skin: Feminism, social justice, and analytic philosophy and Beyond epistemology: a pragmatist approach to feminist science studies on LOC. Megan1967 04:50, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Article does not establish notability beyond that of an average professor. Gamaliel 09:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 13:40, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Wikipedia is not paper. Sheldrake 19:05, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Nor is it toilet paper. Nor is it a place to have an article on every college student's favorite professor/faculty member, nor is a place to have an article on every worker's favorite boss. RickK 22:08, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Does not appear to pass the average professor test. --Carnildo 23:36, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• keep please Yuckfoo 00:37, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, published author, mentioned in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and seems notable in the field of feminist science studies. Kappa 09:36, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete even my profs are more famous than her. Hmib 00:24, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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