Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcel J. Melançon

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The result was delete. Modussiccandi (talk) 08:20, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Marcel J. Melançon

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Currently fails WP:SIGCOV, but potentially notable. Can find much about him at all. Been on the cat:nn list for more than 10 years. So could he be an emeritus professor by now? scope_creep^Talk 18:49, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Canada. Shellwood (talk) 19:21, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
• Comment His work seems to have been cited/critically discussed several times in French GScholar, if not the individual, the book certainly is notable. Oaktree b (talk) 20:06, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
• Comment: fascinatingly low web footprint. Here's a list of his books (as of 2005): [1]. And did you notice that he's also an artist? [2]. So maybe a WP:GNG pass through Quebec newspapers, if anyone's interested in digging through proquest for them. -- asilvering (talk) 05:08, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Need some book review to pass WP:NAUTHOR or some additional references to show he is notable, for the article. scope_creep^Talk 05:31, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm aware. You'll notice I didn't vote keep. -- asilvering (talk) 05:37, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:10, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 01:48, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

• Delete Looking at google scholar it didn't look to me like there were enough citations to meet WP:NPROF. My search didn't find reviews of his books to show WP:NAUTHOR is met. I also didn't see significant independent coverage that meets the GNG. I found several sources listing his works, but they were either from his publisher and/or the university he was teaching.Sandals2 (talk) 15:10, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
• Weak delete. I found one published review including a co-edited volume by the subject among four reviewed books, JSTOR 236496, not enough for WP:AUTHOR. His book on Camus is well-cited for philosophy, but not enough to convince me of a pass of WP:PROF#C1. And I didn't find evidence of other notability criteria. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:11, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
• Weak keep - although he's only an associate professor, he work on the ethics of testing is very much at the cutting edge of bioethics. I have taught this topic in my AP Biology class. Bearian (talk) 19:02, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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