Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kanu Ikechukwu Anthony

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The result was delete. Tone 14:21, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kanu Ikechukwu Anthony

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Shamelessly promotional, fawning and worshipful Orange Mike | Talk 20:07, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How dare anyone pollute our nice clean encyclopedia with an article about some uppity African! Phil Bridger (talk) 20:46, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 21:36, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There was an ordinary academic biography under the promotionalism, which wasn't hard to find. I'll hold off trying to make a judgment about wiki-notability, but regarding WP:PROF#C1, an h-index of 20 looks pretty good for philosophy. XOR'easter (talk) 00:20, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the evidence for notability let alone passing any academic notability guidelines for this Nigerian is lacking. I also have to speak out against the above unjustified attacks on the editor who wisely nominated this article, and against the failure to use precise language, this person is a Nigerian not part of some imagined trans-national community.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:00, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Soft Delete, without a conclusive determination of non-notability, for tone reasons, and doubts as to notability. If the subject does satisfy academic notability or general notability, an article should be written on a blank page. This needs paving over. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:45, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:47, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Setting aside the accusations of racial bias in the nomination, his linked Google Scholar profile at first glance appears very strong for philosophy, enough for WP:PROF#C1. However, investigation shows that a large fraction of the citations to his works are self-citations, which would not count towards WP:PROF#C1. So I think we would have to look elsewhere for notability. For instance, is his journal Igwebuike a "major, well-established academic journal" as #C8 asks for? My guess is no. Does he have sufficient in-depth coverage in reliable sources (such as major national Nigerian newspapers) to pass WP:GNG instead of WP:PROF? The article doesn't make a case for that in its current state but I would prefer to reserve judgement in case this AfD can turn up better sources. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:58, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Cannot see anything there to prove notability per WP:NACADEMIC without very generous interpretation and lots of benefit of doubt; I'm not convinced this article would exist but for some promo/COI editing. Therefore IMO not worth the effort to completely rewrite this, to weed out the other issues (tone/language, fluff, peacockery, etc). -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:22, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non notable --Devokewater (talk) 20:43, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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