Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Blocker

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The result was redirect‎ to College of Biblical Studies. There is consensus against a standalone article, and no objections to the proposed redirect. Vanamonde93 (talk) 20:01, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bill Blocker

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Notability; Cant see anything either in the article or online to suggest he passes WP:GNG TheLongTone (talk) 14:05, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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It's Complicated, Read Below -- (how's that for wishy-washy! sorry closing Admin!) The entire article's pass/fail to me is based on WP:PROF#C6: "The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society." -- without this, I don't see anything in WP:PROF or WP:GNG or anything else to save the article. So we come to the (actually quite rare you'd be surprised) position of determining what "major" means about colleges etc. -- at the height of the seminary it had 1,800 students, which I think is on the KEEP side of what "major" would generally mean. But I looked at the negative side: "does the institution have 1,000 students today?" not close: 200-300. Does the institution have consisent and significant major press coverage about it? [1] Christianity Today 2022 article would be one good point for it, but I'd think that a "major" university would have at least one press article per year about it that I could defend as "significant" but except for some bit stories about the success (and failure) of their basketball teams, I can't find anything. So without setting a precedent about any College presidents of even a smidgen of greater notability, I will !vote Delete -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 09:41, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. C6 is reserved for major research universities; tiny Bible colleges that only offer associates and bachelor's are very far from that standard. This person is not an academic and so doesn't qualify for any other NPROF criteria. JoelleJay (talk) 21:49, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I actually think that this isn’t too far below the standard so don’t want to set a precedent for the next school that has a little more press coverage and notability. But I agree with you on the outcome. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 08:30, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to College of Biblical Studies, where he serves as president and is mentioned in the target article multiple times. Subject fails GNG and NPROF. Frank Anchor 23:33, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect. I don't think this school is up to the level of #C6. So, as for high school principals (who often lead larger institutions and also don't qualify for #C6) we need to go by WP:GNG instead, but we have no evidence of notability that way. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:04, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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