The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 21:33, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
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I set up this discussion without logging in and now I've created an account to ensure it gets full consideration. I have not edited before so I apologise if I have not got the form quite right. I use Wikipedia often and am often moved to edit but have never done so. In this case, I have (small) knowledge of the subject. I am not sure if it is correct to delete but am not sure what other action might be appropriate so I will be be bold (which I can see is a principle at Wikipedia) and let others judge. Essentially, I know that the subject was in charge of the staff at the Fabian Society (of which I am a member, society not staff) at the beginning of the century, but I am not aware that he is an economist. I do not wish to call anyone's judgement into question, but it is quite clear that the article has been set up by someone who may be known to, or may actually be, the subject (I understand that this allegation may be bad form at Wikipedia but it seems a reasonable inference). @Shardadean seems to not be a signed-in editor and seems to have created all the substantive content. Some of the supporting citations refer directly to the subject's own website. Some of the reference are peculiar and again unevidenced (e.g. Ref 13 claims that the subject in effect set up the highly notable Stern Report but provides no evidence other than a link to the Stern Report itself). The website, and therefore the article ('economist' 'professor'), does not reflect the subject's status as what appears to be an adjunct scholar at Sheffield University and formerly a visiting professor (i.e not a member of staff) elsewhere. There is no reference to a professorial chair or appointment anywhere. It provides no evidence that the subject is an economist (e.g. an economics degree?). It may be that as a former adviser to a prime minister the subject should be in Wikipedia, I am not sure, but the present content is both un-evidenced and misleading at respective points and so it would seem to me better to delete the article and let it start anew organically. As my final contribution here (I have made a number of edits already!) I see that WP:COI may be the case here. For example, many of the key paragraphs (including the first few) seem to be an unreferenced description of a book (in effect a self-review). I leave it to other editors to decide what should happen with this page, but the article does look hopelessly compromised. My apologies if I am wrong. Richard3444 ( talk) 23:07, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
I will comment on other pages as appropriate now that I have started here! Richard3444 ( talk) 22:50, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
"Professorial Fellows are the holders of Statutory Chairs, the most senior professorships in the University. They are all members of the College’s Governing Body."[5] Sheffield may have a different definition than Oxford, our article, Academic ranks in the United Kingdom lists Professorial Fellows as those on a research rather than teaching career path. Netherzone ( talk) 16:29, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 21:33, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!
I set up this discussion without logging in and now I've created an account to ensure it gets full consideration. I have not edited before so I apologise if I have not got the form quite right. I use Wikipedia often and am often moved to edit but have never done so. In this case, I have (small) knowledge of the subject. I am not sure if it is correct to delete but am not sure what other action might be appropriate so I will be be bold (which I can see is a principle at Wikipedia) and let others judge. Essentially, I know that the subject was in charge of the staff at the Fabian Society (of which I am a member, society not staff) at the beginning of the century, but I am not aware that he is an economist. I do not wish to call anyone's judgement into question, but it is quite clear that the article has been set up by someone who may be known to, or may actually be, the subject (I understand that this allegation may be bad form at Wikipedia but it seems a reasonable inference). @Shardadean seems to not be a signed-in editor and seems to have created all the substantive content. Some of the supporting citations refer directly to the subject's own website. Some of the reference are peculiar and again unevidenced (e.g. Ref 13 claims that the subject in effect set up the highly notable Stern Report but provides no evidence other than a link to the Stern Report itself). The website, and therefore the article ('economist' 'professor'), does not reflect the subject's status as what appears to be an adjunct scholar at Sheffield University and formerly a visiting professor (i.e not a member of staff) elsewhere. There is no reference to a professorial chair or appointment anywhere. It provides no evidence that the subject is an economist (e.g. an economics degree?). It may be that as a former adviser to a prime minister the subject should be in Wikipedia, I am not sure, but the present content is both un-evidenced and misleading at respective points and so it would seem to me better to delete the article and let it start anew organically. As my final contribution here (I have made a number of edits already!) I see that WP:COI may be the case here. For example, many of the key paragraphs (including the first few) seem to be an unreferenced description of a book (in effect a self-review). I leave it to other editors to decide what should happen with this page, but the article does look hopelessly compromised. My apologies if I am wrong. Richard3444 ( talk) 23:07, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
I will comment on other pages as appropriate now that I have started here! Richard3444 ( talk) 22:50, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
"Professorial Fellows are the holders of Statutory Chairs, the most senior professorships in the University. They are all members of the College’s Governing Body."[5] Sheffield may have a different definition than Oxford, our article, Academic ranks in the United Kingdom lists Professorial Fellows as those on a research rather than teaching career path. Netherzone ( talk) 16:29, 5 October 2022 (UTC)