Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katherine Spilde

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The result was keep. A consensus that the subject meets WP:PROF#C5, which is sufficient to meet notability per WP:NACADEMIC (non-admin closure) Britishfinance (talk) 14:54, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Katherine Spilde

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As far as I can see, she is an associate professor. Academics are not really my area, but this likely fails WP:GNG and WP:NACADEMIC. Edwardx (talk) 21:47, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:14, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom. Does not meet GNG. Fifthavenuebrands (talk) 13:11, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
CommentEndowed Chair of the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at San Diego State University may qualify for WP:PROF#C5. XOR'easter (talk) 17:02, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment GNG is less interesting than WP:NPROF here. Her title is listed as Professor on the SDSU webpage, and I updated the article. I didn't find much sourcing for the career section. She is director of the Sycuan Institute per this link (but I didn't see anything about an endowed chair). And the University of Nevada Las Vegas has a collection of her papers, per this link. I'll also note that she seems to sometimes use the name "Kate Spilde Contreras". Russ Woodroofe (talk) 17:39, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The "endowed chair" bit is on her SDSU profile page. XOR'easter (talk) 17:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment On the SDSU webpage, the body text has "associate professor", even if it has "professor" under the photo. So I have changed it back. I've never heard on an endowed chair for an associate professor. Edwardx (talk) 18:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@XOR'easter, Right. You can also find SDSU news sources that so refer to her (and which are a bit more secondary). Searching with the other name also helps in finding sources... But her official title is Professor, and not Sycuan Professor (per the SDSU profile page, at least). It's looking to me like she's just director of an institute which pays part of her salary. @Edwardx, the listing in the department directory is almost surely more authoritative and up-to-date than the narrative profile. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:35, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing: a link describing the endowed chair that Spilde now holds. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 19:20, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Endowed chair or not, citations on GS do not meet criteria forWP:Prof. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:17, 16 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]
Keep per WP:PROF#C5. It seems as though Spidle is a professor and endowed chair. TJMSmith (talk) 03:25, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's unclear to me why they thought she warranted an endowed professorship but I trust their judgement more than I trust our own more-limited view of her case. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:11, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep She meets WP:PROF#C5, holding an endowed chair at a major institution of higher education and research. Her profile on the university website says that she is both Professor and Associate Professor, but Professor appears with her contact details, and Associate Professor in the text, at the end of a sentence starting "In 2008, she was named the Endowed Chair ...", so I assume that the contact details section is up to date, and the text may not have been updated. So she also meets WP:PROF's requirement that "Criterion 5 can be applied reliably only for persons who are tenured at the full professor level". RebeccaGreen (talk) 07:02, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep. Although I agree with David Eppstein, the WP:PROF#C5 does seem a little more marginal than usual. The collection of her papers held by UNLV helps bring me to the keep side. RebeccaGreen, she's definitely full prof: the promotion news item from 2018 is linked in the article history. (I'll go now and put it also in the talk page, but WP:DUE seems to argue against making a big deal about her promotion in the article.) Russ Woodroofe (talk) 09:39, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Google Scholar hits are not required for passing WP:PROF; they are only one way of doing so, and in Spilde's field, they may not be all that illuminating one way or the other. The WP:PROF#C5 case is adequate. XOR'easter (talk) 16:10, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - we almost always keep endowed chairs at well-known universities. Bearian (talk) 20:32, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:PROF#C5. NNADIGOODLUCK (Talk|Contribs) 06:49, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Only needs to meet one of the 8 criteria listed in WP:NACADEMIC - as listed above, she meets WP:PROF#C5. Jmertel23 (talk) 13:35, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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