Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy Casey

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 03:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Timothy Casey

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Ho hum. A college professor with nothing to distinguish him. Clarityfiend 17:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Delete Fails WP:PROF. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete if he's not notable enough to be mentioned in the Mesa State College page, he's not notable enough for wikipedia. Misterdiscreet 17:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

He is on the page; you have to scroll down past the administrative staff till you come to the faculty. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs)

that's not the page i'm talking about. Mesa State College is. Timothy Casey is not mentioned on the Mesa State College page. Misterdiscreet 05:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

But we almost never include them; we have categories for the purpose. It would otherwise distort the articles for the best universities. DGG 01:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete There is nothing about any publications by him...academic journals, texts, articles, etc. If he had published something, I would "consider" making my viewpoint a keep, but with the way the article is now, no way in heck. --Адам12901 ^T/_C 20:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. No claim to notability. Stammer 20:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. as per TonyTheTiger Bigdaddy1981 20:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
• Delete with Explanation: He's an associate professor at a medium-size state college with a PhD from Arizona State. He will probably not have published much. However, I did look. The college page list him as "T. TIM CASEY which is a little tricky to search.. Looking for his thesis in Dissertation Abstracts, I find it was "The Chief Seattle Speech: A case study of textual reproduction and consequence" I also find his full name "Casey, Terence Timothy" -- PhD theses always give the full name. Searching for that in various variations in Google Scholar, Proquest & Google there is not anything likely. This is the minimum -- I consider any search less than this inadequate. For completeness, I'd really have to use some additional indexes, but this is enough to show there is not any large body of work. Are you all leaving it up to me to do the searches? Everyone has at least Google Scholar available. DGG 21:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Comment. I actually did a Gscholar search and found nothing, then I looked at the guy's webpage at Mesa State. It seems he's having a good life, his fav song is What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong, but that's not something notable. Neither the article, whoever wrote it, nor his webpage try to assert he's notable. That comes pretty close to my threshold for delete. I don't really feel the need to document a search that did not turn up anything notable. He may be a hidden gem, but it's not like everyone has to go to the Library of Congress to check every AfD. If you are willing to go the extra mile, however, that's obviously meritorious. Stammer 08:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you did try; it helps sometimes to have people say what they tried. I don't usually do Diss Abs searches, but I thought it advisable this time; first, to see if he actually did exist, since that was challenged , and second, to try to get his full name, since the college site used a nickname. Occasionally people have missed everything on searching all kinds of topics by not searching all the variations where the name used on the article isn't the exact form. I am very wary of zero result searches, and there are many articles that look NN where people dont know enough to put in the right evidence. Most faculty at his level would have published one or two articles & I was concerned when I didn't find that. You are right, and he's less notable than average. DGG 04:57, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I did look in JSTOR and the EBSCO databases and got nada. Sci girl 04:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Tip to nominator: Consider using the proposed deletion process for uncontroversial deletions, such as this one. Thanks! -- Mailer Diablo 03:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.