Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Perri 6

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The result was keep. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:58, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perri 6

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This person does not appear to be notable. A Google search does not show anything except that he has published some articles, but so has everyone in academia and that isn't enough to meet notability, and that he changed his name to something ridiculous, but those sources are trivial, e.g. an episode of QI. This page is trivial (and possibly just self-promotion?). Richard75 (talk) 15:26, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:30, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:30, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep WP's standards for academics are oddly high: Brian Cox passes WP:N easily for having been a keyboard player on Top Of The Pops, but is questioned as an academic. The football team in a class all pass for having walked onto the pitch and walked off again, but their professor doesn't.

Perri 6 is not the most notable of academics: but they do have a profile, and the oddity of their renaming has given them coverage in some unusual places too, such as Qi. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:06, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

At least playing a keyboard or playing football are achievements; changing one's name is not. Richard75 (talk) 18:25, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences is a pass of WP:PROF#C3, and his personal chair is a likely pass of #C5. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:02, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I added a source to the article for the Fellow of the AcSS. As per David Eppstein, that gives WP:NPROF C3. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 23:24, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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