Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stuart N. Brotman

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The result was delete‎. Consensus is sourcing is insufficient, especially with respect to the veracity of the named chair role. AB if you want this in draft, just ping me. Star Mississippi 01:08, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stuart N. Brotman[edit]

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The article was created by Gbrotman (talk · contribs) in 2009, so there is likely COI. The article is heavily promotional in tone, and lacks citations to reliable sources that would indicate a WP:GNG pass. Looking on scholar [1], I'm just not seeing enough citations to pass WP:PROF. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:30, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. No pass of WP:Prof or WP:GNG. This extraordinarily bloated and vainglorious BLP needs immediate extirpation. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:44, 27 January 2024 (UTC).[reply]
Delete: Concur with the above. Fourteen days would have been too much for this pure vanity article. Fourteen years is just absurd. Ravenswing 16:15, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~ in spite of the tone. I used this edit summary when I removed the PROD tag: "Remove PROD tag. This article is egregiously self-promotional however Brotman may possible meet the requirements of WP:NLIST by holding endowed chairs. Suggest taking to WP:AfD". If I could bold a word in my edit summary, it would have been "egregious".

In my edit summary, I meant WP:NPROF) (not WP:NLIST), specifically criterion 5:

"The person has held a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research…"

Brotman has held these professorships:

"Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Research /Media and Communication Studies, at the University of Helsinki"
"Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor of Journalism and Media Law, Enterprise, and Leadership at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville"
"From 2016-2022, he served as the inaugural Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media Management and Law."

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 17:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Investigate the veracity of some of this. I've stricken my "keep" for now. I started pruning some of the biography and noted much of it relied on Brotman himself. I also noted he appeared to be in many places at once, meaning perhaps a visiting appointment or fellowship was either just a driveby lecture or maybe some of this stuff is made up.

My editing was confined to some quick pruning; I did not dive into the references. Also, there's lots more pruning to do. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 17:23, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For instance, actually looking at that "Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair" reveals that it isn't an appointment at all in the sense NPROF means. It's a short term visiting scholar post (3-9 months) that just has a grandiose title attached to it. Especially with the vast increase in title inflation -- it's far easier to call someone a "Distinguished Endowed Professor" than to raise their pay -- we might want to revisit NPROF's criteria. Ravenswing 19:41, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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